Album: New Traditionalists (1981)

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• It's a beautiful world we live in
  A sweet romantic place
  Beautiful people everywhere
  The way they show they care
  Makes me want to say
  
  It's a beautiful world
  It's a beautiful world
  It's a beautiful world
  
  For you
  For you
  For you
  
  It's a wonderful time to be here
  It's nice to be alive
  Wonderful people everywhere
  The way they comb their hair
  Makes me want to say
  
  It's a wonderful place
  It's a wonderful place
  It's a wonderful place
  
  For you
  For you
  For you
  
  Hey
  Tell me what I say
  
  Boy 'n' girl with the new clothes on
  You can shake it to me all night long
  Hey hey
  
  It's a beautiful world we live in
  A sweet romantic place
  Beautiful people everywhere
  The way they show they care
  Makes me want to say
  
  It's a beautiful world
  It's a beautiful world
  It's a beautiful world
  
  For you
  For you
  For you
  
  It's not for me
  
  It's a beautiful world, For you
  It's a beautiful world, For you
  It's a beautiful world, For you
  It's a beautiful world, Not me Writer/s: GERALD V. CASALE, MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
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Comments: 8

• Lb from KansasDevo was so ahead of their time. My dad has been playing them on vinyl since I was a child, and owns every album. “Whip it” was one of my favorite songs he would play in general when jamming his records, Devo will always have a special place in my heart
• Sandy from KansasWhen my son was very young, he would have nightmares about the "Byooful World Man", the big-headed guy on the video.
• Andrew from Melbourne, AustraliaThis is one of the best songs (and videos) I can remember from the 1980s. Yet you never hear it on the radio anymore. Scandalous! Devo are still too clever for most people.
• Karen from Manchester, NhI LOVE Devo videos! My boyfriend (at the time) and I even designed a Devo album cover when I was about 16: it showed a tiny little country/park type landscape being dwarfed by a huge Devo hat.
• Landon from Winchester, OhRage Against the Machine did a cover of this.
• Kevin from Hood River, OrI had no idea Mark Mothersbaugh was in Devo!!
  
  That totally rocks!! I became a fan through his soundtrack work, namely the Royal Tennenbaums score.
  I wonder if Mothersbaugh and Casale know Joe Walsh? If my memory serves me, he was a student at Kent State at the time of the massacre as well.
• Heidi from Kingsland, GaI had no idea that Devo was a fan of Wall of Voodoo. Rock on!!!!
• Art from Milwaukee, WiThis is one of the best videos ever created. Pure art.

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