Running The World Lyrics
There are people who do not know that the release of Jarvis Cocker's first solo album (scheduled for mid-November, and titled simply Jarvis) is the cultural event of the year. Perhaps you are one of them. In that case, let me present to you this faux-karaoke clip of his download-only single, and quote the lyrics in full.
The return of Jarvis Cocker is important for several reasons. Firstly, as anyone who's heard the final Pulp album to date, We Love Life, will affirm, he left us at the peak of his lyrical power. Secondly, after a long drought of vague platitudes being the only language of British rock, the quotable lyric is coming back with superlative new efforts from Morrissey, Amy Winehouse and the Long Blondes. The return of Jarvis should deliver the final blow to apolitical, non-distinctive, tedious lyrics without a single memorable opinion or turn of phrase being passed off as acceptable.
Besides, how can you not love a man whose immediate reaction to Live 8 was to sit down and write this?
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 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
Cunts are still running the world
Now, the working classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let them all kill each other
And get it made overseas
That's the word, don't you know?
From the guys that are running the show
Let's be perfectly clear, boys and girls:
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
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
It stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
But the takings are up by a third - oh!
So cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
"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;
Not while cunts are still running the world!
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
The return of Jarvis Cocker is important for several reasons. Firstly, as anyone who's heard the final Pulp album to date, We Love Life, will affirm, he left us at the peak of his lyrical power. Secondly, after a long drought of vague platitudes being the only language of British rock, the quotable lyric is coming back with superlative new efforts from Morrissey, Amy Winehouse and the Long Blondes. The return of Jarvis should deliver the final blow to apolitical, non-distinctive, tedious lyrics without a single memorable opinion or turn of phrase being passed off as acceptable.
Besides, how can you not love a man whose immediate reaction to Live 8 was to sit down and write this?
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 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
Cunts are still running the world
Now, the working classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let them all kill each other
And get it made overseas
That's the word, don't you know?
From the guys that are running the show
Let's be perfectly clear, boys and girls:
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
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
It stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
But the takings are up by a third - oh!
So cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
"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;
Not while cunts are still running the world!
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world