World Leader Pretend

I sit at my table

And wage war on myself

It seems like it's all for nothing

I know the barricades

And I know the mortar in the wall breaks

I recognise 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 defences

I proclaim that claims are left unstated

I demand a rematch

I decree a stalemate

I divine my deeper motives

I recognise the weapons

I've practised them well

I fitted them myself

It's amazing what devices you can sympathise

Empathise

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 sympathise

Empathise

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