All Around The World Single Lyrics

All Around The World *Released January 12, 1998. Highest UK Top 40 chart position - 1*

"I wrote this one ages ago, before Whatever. It was twelve minutes long then. It was a matter of being able to afford to record it. But now we can get away with the thirty-six piece orchestra. And the longer the better as far as I'm concerned. If it's good. I can see what people are going to say, but fuck 'em, basically.
The lyrics are pretty teeny-poppy. But there are three key changes towards the end. Imagine how much better Hey Jude would have been with three key changes towards the end. I like the ambition of it, all that time ago. What was all that about when we didn't even have our first single out? Gin and tonics, eh?" - Noel

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All Around The World	The Fame	Flashbax	Street Fighting Man

ALL AROUND THE WORLD

It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me
To go through all the things that I wanna be
I don't believe in everything I see
You know I'm blind
So why d'you disagree

Take me away
Cause I just don't wanna stay
And the lies you make me say
Are gettin' deeper everyday

These are crazy days
But they make me shine
Time keeps rolling by

All around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You're gonna make a better day
All around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You know it's gonna be okay

What you gonna do when the walls come falling down
You never move, you never make a sound
Where you gonna swim with the riches that you found
You're lost at sea
Well I hope that you drown

Take me away
Cause I just don't wanna stay
And the lies you make me say
Are gettin' deeper everyday

These are crazy days
But they make me shine
Time keeps rolling by

All around the world
Gotta spread the word
Tell them what you heard
You're gonna make a better day
And all around the world
Gotta spread the word
Tell them what you heard
You know it's gonna be okay

Na na na na na... . .

All around the world
Gotta spread the word
Tell them what you heard
You're gonna make a better day
Yes all around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you heard
You know it's gonna be okay

Cause all around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You're gonna make a better day
And all around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You know it's gonna be okay

It's gonna be okay
It's gonna be okay
It's gonna be okay
It's gonna be okay

All around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You're gonna make a better day
So round the world
Gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You know it's gonna be okay

All around the world
You gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You gonna make a better day
All around the world
Gotta spread the word
Tell them what you've heard
You know it's gonna be okay

la la la la la... . .

And I know
What I know
Well I know
It's gonna be okay

And I know
What I know
Well I know

So please don't cry
Never say die

la la la la la... . .

So please don't cry
Never say die

THE FAME

Breaks like glass
But not in your hand
They'll shoot you down
Right where you stand
And it don't care for what you wear
Or which way you might sway
It calls you up
But not on the phone
And they will drag you from your throne
And you may laugh while you sit there
Sipping your champagne
And may I laugh at your despair
Sniffing your cocaine

I'm a man of choice in an old rolls royce
And I'm howling at the moon
Is my happening to deafening
For you?
For you?

It's maybe the fame
It's fogotten your name
Did you cry you never did explain
And I remain
Blowing through you
Like a hurricane

It's a shame
It's a shame
It's a shame

It will not fall
No, not from the sky
And it don't eat no humble pie
And you may have your quiet life
But I bet you don't know why
It makes you a mess
You didn't believe
You still don't know what makes me breathe
And you may laugh while you sit there
Sipping your champagne
And may I laugh at your despair
While you're sniffing your cocaine

I'm a man of choice in an old rolls royce
And I'm howling at the moon
Is this happening to deafening
For you?
For you?

It's maybe the fame
It's fogotten your name
Did you cry you never did explain
And I remain
Blowing through you
Like a hurricane

It's a shame
It's a shame
It's a shame

It's maybe the fame
It's fogotten your name
Did you cry you never did explain
And I remain
Blowing through you
Like a hurricane

And I've forgotten your name
Did you cry
Not from the sky
You never did explain
Why I'm still
Blowing through you
Like a hurricane

FLASHBAX

I spend my time sittin' on
The fence with a mate of mine
I'm tryin to write the line of the story
We believe that everything said is a waste of time
Cos life is well tried and it bores me
Yeah, yeah, yeah

In my well paid opinion
These things they really don't matter
Cos from my crystal gazing eyes
There shines a light
Like dynamite

Sittin' on a throne will give a bad back to you
Livin' on my own was like a flashback
To the days when I was lost and lonely
Say you wanna hear about a different story
All your lies well they still bore me
There's nothin wrong with my world
These things they really don't matter now

In my well paid opinion
These things they really don't matter
Cos from my crystal gazing eyes
There shines a light
Like dynamite

(whistle)

Don't matter now
Don't matter now
Don't matter now
They don't matter now
They don't matter now
They don't matter now
They don't matter now
Don't matter now
Don't matter now

STREET FIGHTING MAN
(Jagger/Richards)

fuckin' hell
fuckin' cables
fuckin' wires everywhere
ha ha, bastard (spoken)

Everywhere I hear the sound of marching feet, boy
Cause summer's here
And the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
But what can a poor boy do
'cept to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
Cause in sleepy London town
There's just no place for a street fighting man
No

Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution
But where I live the game to play is compromise solution
Well what can a poor boy do
'cept to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
Cause in sleepy London town
There's just no place for a street fighting man
No, no, no

Hey! said my name is called disturbance
I'll shout and scream
I'll kill the king
I'll rail at all his servants
Well what can a poor boy do
'cept to sing in a rock 'n' roll band
Cause in sleepy London town
There's no place for a street fighting man
No, no, no