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Certain leaders build their tools of death

 Saying it's all to keep the peace

 They're saying one thing doing another

 Both sides of the scales of power

 The deadly loads increase

 Mad world we're living in a mad world

 We're living in a mad mad mad mad mad world

 As they sit down at the table

 Trapping the media's narrow view

 They prepare for their intervention

 A military masadventure or two

 People today ask fewer questions

 Accepting the excuses on TV

 As negotiations grab the attention

 They repeat the lies

 Until they sound like the truth

 Mad world we're living in a mad world

 We're living in a mad mad mad mad mad w