What the World Needs

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinnin' around

I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline-maker

Hmm, I get up

I get up

And no one's gonna keep me down

Okay, it's clear, I'm the top of this class

These folks here, well, they pump the gas

Fetch me a coffee, shine my shoes

Some of us are winners, some were born to lose

You got the sandwich artist, the security guard

The Walmart greeter with an overdrawn credit card

He smokes ganja, ooh, it's so groovy

To stay at home and watch a Transformer movie

She serves me Coke and a medium fries

And no, thanks, I don't want it supersized

'Cause that's low-class, diabetes in a cup

Keep your head down, and things will look up

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinnin' around

I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline-maker

Hmm, I get up (she gets up)

I get up

And no one's gonna keep me down

Seriously?

This one here, he's rarin' to fail

He'll rob a 7-11 and go straight to jail

Maybe steal hubcaps, maybe steal booze

Expressing himself with his homemade tattoos

Soccer mom, minivan

Four little brats, no steady man

Do we really need another organ donor?

Maybe that was a little harsh, love you!

Oh, Pokémon, Spider-Man?

This kid doesn't have an attention span

And what's he gonna do, solve a Rubik's cube?

How long's he got if we feed him through a tube?

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinnin' around

I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline-maker

Hmm, I get up (she gets up)

I get up

And no one's gonna keep me down

And as we move through life to find our place in the crowd

Some don't make the cut, that's crystal clear-o (oh yes, oh yes)

Oh, isn't someone keeping score? I gotta say this out loud

I mean, do we really need another zero?

Or zero? Or zero?

Or zero? Or zero?

Add 'em all up, and you'll still get zero

What you really need is a fother muckin' hero

And oh, oh

He'll never learn to read

And oh, oh

He's never gonna breed

And oh, oh

Going to jail guaranteed

And she's a freaky monster

Yes, there's a problem, I'm the solution

Darwin had a theory called, "Evolution"

He put it into words, but it's plain to see

We need a little less of them, a little more of me

What the world needs is people like me (we can't all be heroes, no)

To keep it all spinnin' around (most of us, zero-ohs)

I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline-maker (some fly high)

She gets up (she gets up)

She gets up

What the world needs is people like me (we can't all be heroes, no)

To keep it all spinnin' around (most of us, zero-ohs)

I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline-maker (some fly high)

She gets up (she gets up)

She gets up

And no one's gonna keep me down (some stay down)

Down!