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Running the World Lyrics

Well did you hear, there's a natural order
Those most deserving will end up with the most
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top
Well I say, "Shit floats"

If you thought things had changed
Friend, you'd better think again
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words:
Cunts are still running the world (x2)

Now the working classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let 'em all kill each other
And get it made overseas.
That's the word, don't you know
From the guys that's running the show
Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls,
Cunts are still running the world (x2)

Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails,
Find a school near the top of the league
In theory I respect your right to exist
I will kill you if you move in next to me
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so
Cunts are still running the world (x2)

The free market is perfectly natural
Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?
It's the ideal way to order the world
"Fuck the morals, does it make any money?"
And if you don't like it, then leave
Or use your right to protest on the street.
Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard
Cunts are still running the world (x6)
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i don't think that anyone needs to tell you the meaning to this song.

Or at least they shouldn't need to.

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

very cool

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

i LOVE how this was the first song to get added off Jarvis. =P

I actually played this song with la famille the other night and they hated it totally because of the language, but I think it works! It's bitterly honest and I'm pleased that Jarvis still hates everyone just as much as he did in Different Class. =)

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

It was the first to get added because he put it on the internet before the album's release. I think it's pretty class.

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

I love this some, at the reading festival this year they had a sing along of it between bands and it was good =)

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

This is the best song to come along in a long time. Jarvis is great and all his music (that I've heard is great)

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

i'm not a hippy or anything, but i hate the way everything in life comes down to money and how some people will fuck the world over just cos they're greedy bastards. yet these people are running the world and there's not much we can do about it. thats pretty much the gist of the song, but you all new that anyway ;-)

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hate to pick holes but its "get it made overseas"

not "get a maid overseas"

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

What a great sing-a-long chorus - Everybody sing!

Cover art for Running the World lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

great song. i especially like how it was played during the credits of Children of Men. very sly... :)