Mad World
By: Rose Cora Perry
Genres
Description
from the album Off Of the Pages CONCEPT: R.Perry Homage to B. Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Director: B. Frank (Wreckless Crew Productions) Director of Photography: M.J. Davidson Post-Production: B. Frank (Wreckless Crew Productions) & F. Pereanez (VertXStudios) Aftereffects: F. Pereanez (VertXStudios) Producer: HER Records 2010 Off Of the Pages is available by DONATION ONLY; all proceeds to MusicSaves. To learn more visit, www.musicsaves.ca
Lyrics
V1: The world has gone to battle we're left to pick up the ashes There are no more, no more idols to teach our children what we once knew Our families are falling to pieces over monetary disputes When did we lose our focus and trade in our dignity and our truth? V2: The world seems like it's ended when whores earn more than an honest day's work Our religion has crushed down upon us when fathers subjected kids to their abuse Our schools are scaring teachers Discipline's been put in the hands of the youth Don't you remember a time when we had rolemodels to look up to? Refrain: Oooh don't you, ooh don't you? (Overlay: Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow, There's no tomorrow, no tomorrow, It's a mad world, it's a mad world) V3: The world's become so scattered we'd rather have diamonds, and pearls over love And when did gratuitous violence become a subject we daily discuss? Our children are growing up too fast the pressures of beauty are upon us all Our future's looking uncertain we need someone to just speak up Refrain: Oooh speak up, ooooh speak up (Overlay: Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow, There's no tomorrow, no tomorrow, It's a mad world, it's a mad world) Outro: Tell me, tell me do you like what it is we're doing? Tell me, tell me don't you see that we're cracking? Tell me, tell me do you want to keep lying? Tell me, tell me are you happy with the fact that we're dying? (Overlay: There's something wrong with the world today, I don't know what it is, I'm living on the edge) All lyrics written by R. Perry, unless otherwise noted. Not to be reprinted without permission. Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2010. *Note: Chorus Overlay lyrics homage Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" (Donnie Darko Soundtrack, Michael Andrews/Everloving, 2002). Outro Overlay lyrics homage Aerosmith's "Living on the Edge" (Get a Grip, Geffen, 1993)*
