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Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Bass Tab
Verse:
A/D G/D
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|*-------------------------*|
|*-5---5-5---5-5---5-5---5-*|
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1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a
Chorus:
Em F#m
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|-------------------------|-4---4-4---4-4---4-4---4-|
|-7---7-7---7-7---7-7---7-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a 1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a
G F#m
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|-5---5-5---5-5---5-5---5-|-4---4-4---4-4---4-4---4-|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
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1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a 1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a
Em F#m G A
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|-------------4---4-4---4-|-5---5-5---5-7---7-7---7-|
|-7---7-7---7-------------|-------------------------|
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1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a 1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a
Middle-eight: _______
G D A |last
|----------|--------------|-----------------|
|*---------|-------------*|---------------7-|
|*---------|-5-5---------*|-5-5-------------|
|--3-------|-------5-5----|-------5-5-------|
1 2 3 4 1 & 2 3 & 4 1 & 2 3 & 4 & a
Instrumental:
G D A
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|*---------|---------*|
|*---------|-5-------*| (x4)
|--3-------|-----5----|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Bm C
|----------|----------|
|*---------|---------*|
|*-2-------|-3-------*| (x2)
|----------|----------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
G A
|---------|-------------|
|---------|-------------|
|---------|-----------5-|
|-3-------|-5-----------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 & a
Song Structure:
Rest(4 bars)
Verse(x16)
Chorus(x1)
Verse(x12)
Chorus(x1)
Middle-eight(x3)
Chorus(x1)
Instrumental(x1)
Verse(x8)
Chorus(x2)
Middle-eight(x2)
Chorus(x1)
Verse(x12)(Fade-out)
By: Johari Taylor
E-mail: viking@powerup.com.au
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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gab Average |
#1 by gab gonzalez at Mar 20, 1971 at 3:38 AM EST |
| best song ever, reminds me of that movie ending...wheres theres popcorn coming from the sky? | |
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What?Me Worry? Wanna Be |
#2 by What?Me Worry? at Aug 2, 1971 at 10:56 AM EST |
| According to Curt Smith: "...the concept is quite serious - it's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes." | |
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Micke Lead Player |
#3 by Micke Nordin at Sep 28, 1972 at 2:11 AM EST |
| what does it matter what show it would be associated with? It's an amazing song. Tears for fears was combating the yuppie-attitude of the time. They were serenading all of us with their messages of 'theres something better than this'. | |
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Paula Rhythm Player |
#4 by Paula at Jan 9, 1978 at 4:37 PM EST |
| I would have to agree with the statement that nothing does last forever, it all goes away in a quick second, sometimes u get to enjoy the fine and fun things in life, while in other situations you dont. I think that is what the song is about | |
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Kael Average |
#5 by Kael Nainggolan at Jan 21, 1981 at 3:54 PM EST |
| i know this song from the album. haha. but yeah..it's a good song. well first i knew it from the radio..but yeah. everyone wants to rule the world, it's true. | |
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chris Wanna Be |
#6 by chris tremayne at Jan 12, 1982 at 7:00 PM EST |
| please people, we are supposed to comment on the song's meaning, not where we have most recently heard the pleasant melody. as for myself, this is a condemnation or even better, a veritable diatribe against the sickening stench of avaricious capitalism. your greed sickens me as you have turned your back on the natural world instead searching for the easiest way to make some greenbacks..sick-ass americans, nothing lasts forever, not even your money or your lives. john wayne is dead, and he will never be thawed out. he can't buy immortality. read the poem ozymandius. it describes that even the most powerful and opulent still die and all their material wealth cannot sustain their puny memory. so much for your fiscal dollar. haha | |
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Tristan Wanna Be |
#7 by Tristan Riles at Aug 21, 1983 at 3:55 PM EST |
| Better at the introduction to some british movie that shows newsreel footage of all the major events in england 1985-1991. Peters Friends or something, wasn't it ? | |
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Kaden Wanna Be |
#8 by Kaden at Oct 31, 1983 at 11:17 PM EST |
| I just love the opening line to the song. That's all I have to say. That one line just can make you ponder for hours. That's what good lyrics make you do :] | |
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Michele Rhythm Player |
#9 by Michele at Jan 16, 1988 at 8:29 PM EST |
| to the silent knight, i stab at thee. you shall be silenced as i quell thy flickering soul. thou wanted an interpretation and thou shall receive. i only offer my pretentious hand once. who gave you carte blanche to analyse my psyche? you think you're saving a life? you're already dead. you, me, him, everybody, we're all dead. a pox on you and you're sententious harangue. conscience, you dare speak to me of conscience? only when you have realized the full gravity of choice shall you dare question my judgement. insult, the last resort of a fading half-wit | |
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Paul Average |
#10 by Paul at Jan 23, 1991 at 4:50 PM EST |
| the movie you are thinking of is called real genius with val kilmer. good 80's movie, humerous val kilmer in it. | |
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Dylan Lead Player |
#11 by Dylan |
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Adam Wanna Be |
#12 by Adam Doyle at Dec 29, 1996 at 2:20 PM EST |
| whenever interpreting songs by openly gay performers, it's important to remember that it's very likely that their gayness informs their songwriting to some degree. I think that is the case here, and Roland Orzibal's songs are full of gay activism. "welcome to your life, there's no turning back" - is about facing the fact that sexuality is predetermined, and there's nothing you can do to change it, or it could be about the moment of coming out, where "your life" begins, and once you decide, you can't go back. "even while we sleep we will find you acting on your best behaviour" - speaks of deep seated behavioural conditioning that prevents closet gays from acting on their desires, even in their sleep. "turn your back on mother nature" - is an exhortation to go against "natural" heterosexuality, or it could be an admonishment for trying to be hetero, when homo is what was given by nature "everybody wants to rule the world" - there will always be somebody who tries to force everyone else to follow their view of the way things should be - in this case, conservatives who think being straight is the only right way to be. "it's my own (desire), it's my own remorse" I think there's a mistake in the text - even that typed in the official lyric sheet - which occurs quite often - and the word "design" should be "desire", in which case, he means exactly that - his desire (homo, not hetero), and his problem alone to deal with the consequences of following his desire. "help me to decide, help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever" - of his wish for society to release/give him freedom to decide for himself what will make him happy and give him pleasure. Why? Because nothing lasts forever - life is short, so it should be happy. "there's a room where the light won't find you holding hands" - of a gay couple who hide in the closet, away from the light, hoping not to be discovered "while the walls come tumbling down - when they do I'll be right behind you" - of the slow removal of barriers to the integration and acceptance of gay people into mainstream society. When it happens, Roland will be there to support those who were hiding. "I can't stand this indecision, married with a lack of vision" - is a direct stab at people like Elton John and George Michael, who all through the 80's vascillated about coming out of the closet, lacking the vision to believe that the world could ever accept them. | |
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Glenn Average |
#13 by Glenn Campbell at Mar 21, 1997 at 6:22 AM EST |
| As for knowing the song from a tv show taking away from the credibility, I think it says a lot that this song IS still recognized, it's almost timeless. Especially to be associated with such a respectable show as West Wing..now if it was Roseanne or some other crap it would be different. | |
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Matt Average |
#14 by Matt Vautour at Jul 30, 2000 at 6:57 AM EST |
| to retaliate, calling me misguided, incorrigible and a fool, among others, is fair. one thing persists. i do see it 'as it is.' i have the most profound perspicacity to date. you are blinded by your ostensible 'freedom' and your spurious hopes for a better life. how can you question my integrity and insights when you have only construed some electronic text? what does it represent to you? is it a mellifluous melody or a dramatic dialogue aimed at your heart. perish ye heathen and dispense with thy pontification. | |
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Mistress Cheyen Rhythm Player |
#15 by Mistress Cheyenne at Jul 11, 2002 at 2:47 AM EST |
| Great song, always gets me thinking.. To me, it seems that "ruling the world" isn't so much referring to assuming a position of wealth or power, but perhaps DEFINING the world (more specifically, our own lives and their meanings and purposes) to the point that we're consumed by these definitions ("There's no turning back"). Where he says "It's my own design/it's my own remorse" I got the sense that he's referring to us bringing this undesirable point of "no turning back" upon our invdividual SELVES, each and every one of us. I think the most important lines in the song (in terms of getting the main idea across) are in the beginning: lines 3-5. Here, I'm getting the feeling that "even while we sleep", all day, everyday, we're caught up in a world we've created for ourselves instead of the one set here by "mother nature", whom, as a result, were are "turning our backs" upon. The pleading tone of the song ("Help me make the most..") drives home the final point: that this is not good, but instead RESTRICTING of our collective potential for happiness rather than enhancing it. By becoming encompassed by our own unnatural desires, it follows that we tend to lose sight of the "finer" things in life, "freedom and pleasure". | |
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RANDOM Lead Player |
#16 by RANDOM Doom at Jul 14, 2004 at 6:38 PM EST |
| To the bombastic bitch-ass, aka SHAUNCREANEY.....with all candor, i won't deny that i actually do concur with the message of the song and even with some of what your self-inflated ego had to needlessly inject into the "analysis," which was, "the most powerful and opulent still die and all their material wealth...." True, money is nothing more than ink on paper and opulence in the end amounts to zero. The only true wealth is what we carry around in our heads and hearts. However, it is not in the least a sin to aspire to material wealth and material success. Au contraire, you beaver. Needless to say, you're antiamerican....you're against free enterprise or what you call "capitalism." You're probably just flat out against freedom. And to put it accurately, you're a very, woefully, incorrigibly misguided individual who thinks he/she sees it how it is. NOT SO. so where exactly are you coming from hmm? I wonder how the world would revolve if fools steeped in grandiloquence (i.e., you) were to ever claim the global throne. | |
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♥brian Lead Player |
#17 by ♥brian♥ ******** at May 31, 2006 at 7:47 AM EST |
| Also the similar webstite songfacts.com has a user who says that the title and lyrics were "Everybody Wants to Go to War." Still don't understand what the song means - keep in mind it came out in 1983 before the Berlin Wall fell. The song sounds like it could be talking about the meaninglessness of war with those lyrics but... hell I don't know. | |
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Atreyufan4ever Average |
#18 by Atreyufan4ever at Jul 24, 2006 at 11:15 AM EST |
| As far as the argument between Shauncreany and Silentknight goes, I would have to side with SilentKnight. I know using extremely underused words in this day in age may make you seem a lot smarter and more knowledgable than those around you, but it finally comes down to the general idea you want to get across. Among that mountain of needless words you put together, you basically said "fuck capitalism" and "fuck the United states". You also stated that this is exactly what Tears for Fears is stating. Ok, well it may make sense...sure we live in a capitalistic world. And at the time this song came out, capitalism was fighting communism. You're stating that capitalism was what tears for fears was speaking out against. Now if this is true...if you agree with these men, you would indeed be setting yourself up for agreeing with your newly created hypocrits. Because, only through a capitolistic world, could a group like tears for fears make millions of dollars through the number of albums they sold. And they sure as hell made a lot of money, speaking their mind, in the free western world....hey, can you tell me how many famous russian singers came out of 80's from the Soviet Union? That's what i thought....it's marketing...people want to feel unique, either by memorizing the dictionary (like yourself), or by joining some cause, this usually exists within fanatic youths from 18 - 26...so, groups will make music that will appeal to their idealistic principals (in order to put some money in the pockets). Now, even though i feel that in a way, tears for fears did such a thing (if i was to agree with your inturpretation of the song)...I don't care...you know why? Because even though they're working hard to agree with the fanatic youth of the time...they end up suprising even themselves with the philosophical symbolism they create (even though it was done to make a buck). I think the same thing can go for bands nowadays....like System of a Down...even though they're against a lot of the thigns you are.....the men are millionaires....are they hypocrits? Nahh......Business men? Hell yeah!!....The extreme populice of the capitol world. Let's see if you could speak your mind living in your "Utopian anti-capitolistic" world. There were a lot of men that had the same dreams as you did.....they go by the names of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Vladamir Lenin....the last two ended up being responcible by ordering the deaths of more than 20 million people during their eras.....now you think about it....maybe, if you put the dictionary and bong down...get off your lazy ass, stop repeating what your other lazy friends say because they don't want to get a job...and do something for yourself, you won't have to pretend to be "unique" by reciting Webster and Shakespeare online and actually do something for yourself... | |
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Fink Lead Player |
#19 by Fink James at Sep 7, 2007 at 1:28 AM EST |
| it was in the beginning of Dennis Miller Live too...but who cares what people know it from. it's an awesome song and everyone knows it's by tears for fears | |
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