Lunatics with automatic guns   Contaminated beef, muggers on the street   The Berlin Wall was the first thing to fall   Civil war in Bosnia, bye bye Yugoslavia      All around the world is falling down   Political solutions can’t be found   What’s going to happen to the communist party   Who really cares? Who wants to know      This is the real world yeah   Welcome to the real world      L.A. riots shocked a nation   Oil pollution, bloody revolutions   The Vietnam war was the first one we saw   Government corruption, nuclear destruction      Every day there’s another disaster   New leaders and political masters   What’s going to happen to you and me   We need to know, we want the truth      This is the real world yeah   This is the real world      Government corruption, nuclear destruction   The Soviets had a meltdown, can’t live in that town   Political solutions, bloody revolutions   Welcome, welcome   Welcome to the real world      People may come and people may go   Don’t hang around ‘cause they don’t wanna know   It’s not the world that I want   It’s not the world that I need   Tell me, tell me, why does it terrify me?      Every day there’s another disaster   Banana republics with political masters   What does the future hold for you and me   What wants to know? Who really cares?      This is the real world yeah   Welcome to the real world