What my #SaveWILG campaign is in need of is a theme tune. I hit upon this idea while watching TOTP2 in bed the other night. Tears for Fears were featured in this addition from 1985 and they were preforming their classic hit Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
Without permission, I have took it upon myself to change the words to this popular hit, in order to make it fit with the campaign. If anyone is interested in recording this song I would be happy to contribute to recording costs as I think it would be a really effective way of raising awareness. I am getting carried away with myself now, but I really like the new lyrics that I have created.
Anyway, see for yourself with the video of the Tears for Fears boys posted below, so you have no excuse not to sing along. I have also added a few paragraphs from Wikipedia about Tears for Fears. I do hope there are no copyright issues over the use of this tune as I am giving the writers full credit and not claiming any credit for myself.
I hope you like my new version.
Everybody Wants to Save the WILG
Independent lives
Its our human right
Justice is our goal
We will claim it
Fighting for your children’s future
Turn against bloody Welsh Labour
Everybody wants to save the WILG
It’s my own campaign
Writing to the press
Postcards in the mail
Badges on my chest
Help me beat the politicians
Principles will last forever
Everybody wants to save the WILG
Local councils just can’t be trusted
Causing deaths as
Their plans come falling down
When they do, we’ll be right here for you
So glad you’re so supportive
So sad they will not listen
Everybody wants to save the WILG
We can’t stand this indecision
Minister’s show a lack of vision
Everybody wants to save the WILG
Say that you’ll never, never, never, never cut it
One promise, why believe it?
Everybody wants to save the WILG
Help me beat the politicians
Principles will last forever
Everybody wants to save the WILG
From Wikipedia:
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the new wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop, which led to international chart success. They were part of the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US.[8]
Their debut album, The Hurting, released in 1983, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, while their second album, Songs from the Big Chair, released in 1985, reached number one on the US Billboard 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the UK and the US.[9][10] Their second album contained two Billboard Hot 100 number ones: “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World“‘, the latter winning the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986.[11]
Smith and Orzabal parted company in 1991, after the release of their third platinum-selling album The Seeds of Love (1989). Orzabal retained the Tears for Fears name, releasing the albums Elemental (1993) and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995) before he and Smith re-formed as Tears for Fears in 2000 and released an album of new material, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, in 2004. Since 2013, the duo have been working on their seventh album.[12] Tears for Fears have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.[13]
