We Are Not The World

Silverstein

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, the fool
Tonight, tonight

I'm ready for your drama
Stay calm, [Incomprehensible]
You're throwing every hook tonight
Your charismatic lines
Make tears run down their cheeks

I've lost the only thing I need
Here's to the plaintiff
And now you've taking her away

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, your fool
Pull out the pin

Fallen a bomb grenade now
Don't shoot, don't shoot
I'm just a kid like you
We fight for billionaires who bomb our city streets

What do I chase?
To find a use for corporate green
Here's to the propaganda
And then they take your life away

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play

And now that war has been declared
How long until bombs burst in air
We've come too far
Just to let this die, to throw this away

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play

I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
(You're not the ones)

In your play
(We're not the ones)
In your play, your fool
(We are not the fools)


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We Are Not The World Lyrics as written by Joshua Bradford Neil Boshart

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    I've always been your favorite game And all the world's your sparkling stage Just another ? in your play, the fool

    ..... the last line is Just another extra in your play, the fool.

    jmikes9590on March 26, 2009   Link

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