Mad World

This song has been haunting me since last night. The lyrics roll through my mind with no hope of cessation. This version of the song was created for the movie Donnie Darko. I watched the film again tonight and this song appears at the end of the film. It is an soulfully melancholy version of the original and it makes my soul ache.

Mad World

All around me are familiar faces,
Worn out places,
Worn out faces,
Bright and early for the daily races,
Going nowhere,
Going nowhere,
Their tears are filling up their glasses,
No expression,
No expression,
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow,
No tomorrow,
No tomorrow,
And I find it kind of funny,
I find it kind of sad,
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had,
I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take,
When people run in circles,
It's a very very,
Mad world,
Mad world,
Children waiting for the day they feel good,
Happy birthday,
Happy birthday,
And I feel the way that every child should,
Sit and listen,
Sit and listen,
Went to school and I was very nervous,
No one knew me,
No one knew me,
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson,
Look right through me,
Look right through me,
And I find it kind of funny,
I find it kind of sad,
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had,
I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take,
When people run in circles,
It's a very very,
Mad world,
Mad world,
Enlarging your world,
Mad world...

written by Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears
The above version performed by Gary Jules

The following is my own not quite synchronous extension...

Time keeps on ticking
ever forward
ever forward
There's a chance that I am dying
still undying
still undying
Backwards faster
I don't know you
I don't know you
There's something that I'm doing
I'm not seeing
I'm not seeing
It's out there somewhere
beyond the stairway
A glimpse of something
better
better
It's a lie they told me
a lie I told me
a lie I told me
You've got to go there
but it's nowhere
it's always nowhere
I'm trying really hard
to see through pictures
that people put there
to hide their sorrow
I think it's kinda funny
I think it's kinda sad
that it doesn't really matter
the stuff that's in your head
because the world keeps ticking
round and round we go
circling faster
ever faster
towards something never known
Mad World,
Mad World.