When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

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"When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around"
"When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around" is a song on the 1980 album Zenyatta Mondatta.
Recorded by The Police
Released: 1980-10-03
Recorded: 1980-07-07 - 1980-08-07
Length: 3:28
Album(s): Zenyatta Mondatta
Label(s): A&M
Writer(s): Sting
Producer(s): The Police, Nigel Gray
Studio(s): Wisseloord Studios
Released as single? NO

"When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around" is a song written by Sting and recorded by The Police in 1980.

About the song

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Personnel

Release History

Albums

"When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around" appears on the following album releases:

Cover art Album title Release date Release country
Police-album-zenyattamondatta.jpg Zenyatta Mondatta 1980-10-03 UK

Video

"SONG TITLE" appears on the following video and dvd releases:

Cover art Video title Release date Release country
Stub.gif Video or dvd title YYYY-MM-DD Country

Lyrics

Lyrics are property and copyright of their owners, and provided here for educational purposes only. 

Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show,
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years

Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears
Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song, it's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Plug in my M.C.I, to excercise my brain
Make records on my own, can't go out in the rain
Pick up the telephone, I've listened here for years
No one to talk to me, I've listened here for years

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When I feel lonely here, don't waste my time with tears
I run 'Deep Throat' again, it ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat, the cans are running out
Same food for years and years, I hate the food I eat

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Quotations and trivia

Robert Fripp and Andy Summers on WHFS 99.1 in Annapolis/Baltimore

Andy Summers: "Yeah, like "The World Is Running Down" for instance, although I thought that the lyrics were great that Sting had. Nothing like what we finally came up with. It was like this sort of disco song with different chords and everything. I know there was quite some friction in the studio over that particular piece. And we worked through it and we finally came up with it. Without bragging, overly, if I had not put those chords on and put the guitar sounds that is so characteristic, it wouldn't have sounded anything like it does now."

Robert Fripp: "If you wish to brag overly, you can go ahead."

Andy Summers: "Well, I will. The minute that I put this sound on and those chords with Stewart's drumming, it all fell just like the key (he snaps his fingers) and within five minutes we had recorded it. It was just like instant, it just needed that key. And so on and so forth."

Alternative and cover versions

A cover version of When The World Is Running Down appears on the following album release:

Cover art Artist Album title Release date Release country
Vinyl.png Phillip Leo, Tenor Fly Reggatta Mondatta Volume II 1998-06-30 ??

See also

External links

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References

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