Listen To R.E.M.’s Uncanny “World Leader Pretend” For The Anti-Trump “30 Days, 30 Songs”

Oct 19th, 2016 in Music

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The seminal R.E.M. has contributed a previously-unreleased live performance of their song World Leader Pretend (off their 1988 Green album) for 30 Days, 30 Songs. As one can see from the song’s lyrics (see below), although it was written nearly 30 years ago, the song is a perfect match for the 30 Days anti-Trump campaign.  Check it out and make sure to vote.

World Leader Pretend:

I sit at my table and wage war on myself
It seems like it’s all, it’s all for nothing
I know the barricades
And I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognize the weapons, I’ve used them well

This is my mistake
Let me make it good
I raised the wall
And I will be the one to knock it down

I’ve a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated
I demand a rematch

I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the weapons
I’ve practiced them well
I fitted them myself

It’s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)
This is my mistake, let me make it good
I raised the wall
And I will be the one to knock it down

Reach out for me
Hold me tight
Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me
Let my machine talk to me

This is my world, and I am the World Leader Pretend
This is my life, and this is my time
I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit
It’s high time I razed the walls that I’ve constructed

It’s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)
This is my mistake, let me make it good
I raised the wall
And I will be the one to knock it down

You fill in the mortar
You fill in the harmony
You fill in the mortar
I raised the wall
And I’m the only one
I will be the one to knock it down

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