Released: March 15, 1985
Songwriter: Roland Orzabal Ian Stanley Chris Hughes
Producer: Chris Hughes
[Verse 1]
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Verse 2]
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Bridge]
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
[Verse 3]
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline - why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Verse 5]
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Verse 2]
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Bridge]
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
[Verse 3]
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline - why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world
[Verse 5]
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
Remixed Songs from the Big Chair
- Shout (U.S. Remix)
- Mothers Talk (Alternate U.S. Remix)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (12" Version)
- Shout (U.K. Remix)
- Mother’s Talk (12" Version)
- The Way You Are (12" Version)
- Shout (Dub Version)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Instrumental)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Urban Mix)
- Mothers Talk (Beat of the Drum Mix)
- Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (12" Preacher Mix)
- Shout (A Cappella)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Mad World
- Head Over Heels / Broken (Reprise)
- Shout
- Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Pale Shelter
- Woman in Chains
- Memories Fade
- I Love You But I’m Lost
- Listen
- Watch Me Bleed
- The Working Hour
- Break It Down Again
- Mothers Talk
- Advice for the Young at Heart
- Head Over Heels
- Change
- I Believe
- The Hurting
- Broken
- Ideas As Opiates
- Badman’s Song
- Suffer the Children
- Goodnight Song