World Leader Pretend (Unplugged, Live 1991)

[Verse 1]

Hmm-hmm-mm

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 practiced them well, I fitted them myself

[Chorus]

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize

This is my mistake, let me make it good

I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize

This is my mistake, let me make it good

I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down

[Bridge]

Reach out for me and hold me tight

Hold that memory, let my machine talk to me

Let my machine talk to me

[Verse 3]

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

[Chorus]

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize

This is my mistake, let me make it good

I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down

[Outro]

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

[Outro, spoken]

Thank you