[00:00.00]This World Over (Edit) - XTC [00:00.15]Written by:Andy Partridge [00:00.31]Ah well that's this world over [00:07.40]Ah well next one begins [00:28.44]Will you smile like any mother [00:35.55]As you bathe your brand new twins [00:42.58]Will you sing about the missiles [00:49.66]As you dry odd numbered limbs [00:56.77]Ah well that's this world over [01:03.82]Ah well next one begins [01:10.87]Ah well that's this world over [01:18.75]You sadly grin [01:24.95]Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land [01:31.86]About their leader with the famous face [01:38.87]Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows [01:42.39]In the garden anymore [01:45.98]Because he wanted to win the craziest race [01:54.09]That's this world over [02:07.11]Will you smile like any father [02:14.35]With your children on a Sunday hike [02:21.37]When you get to a sea of rubble [02:28.48]And they ask [02:29.31]What was London like [02:32.87]You tell them [02:35.53]Ah well that's this world over [02:42.55]Ah well next one begins [02:46.83]One begins [02:47.52]One begins [02:49.71]Ah well that's this world over [02:56.67]You sadly grin [03:17.78]Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land [03:24.62]And how a child to the virgin came [03:31.90]Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered [03:34.59]Everything upon the surface of the world [03:38.56]So we can stand right up and say we did it in his name [03:46.93]That's this world over [03:54.02]Or so it seems [04:00.91]That's this world over [04:08.12]The end of dreams [04:18.91]That's this world over over over and out