What the World Needs

### Artist

Kholby Wardell, Emily Rohm, Scott Remond, Chaz Duffy, Lillian Castillo Tiffany Tatreau, Brooke Maxwell & Jacob Richmond

### Producer

Sh-K Boom

**"What The World Needs"** is the fourth song featured in *Ride the Cyclone*, as Ocean's song.

## Lyrics

**Ocean:**

No-nooo!

What the world needs

Is people like me

To keep it all spinning around

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

Mmm, 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

**Ocean/Choir:**

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinning around

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

**Ocean:**

Mmm, I get up

**Constance:**

She gets up!

**Ocean:**

And no one's gonna keep me down

Seriously?

This one here, he's rarein' 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!

Ohhhh,

Pokémon, Spiderman

This kid doesn't have an attention span

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

**[*whispered*]**

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

**Ocean/Choir:**

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinning around

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

**Ocean:**

Mmm, I get up

**Choir:**

She gets up!

**Ocean:**

And no one's gonna keep me down!

And as we move through life

We find our place in the crowd

**Choir:**

Some don't make the cut

That's crystal clear-o!

**Ocean:**

Oh yes, oh yes!

Oh, isn't someone keeping score

I've gotta say this out so loud

I mean

**Ocean/Choir:**

Do we really need another zero?

Or a zero?

Or a zero?

Or a zero?

Or a zero?

**Ocean:**

Add 'em all up and you *still* get zero!

What you really need is a futher muckin' hero!

**Choir:**

And oh oh

**Ocean:**

He'll never learn to read!

**Choir:**

And oh oh

**Ocean:**

He's never gonna breed!

**Choir:**

And oh oh

**Ocean:**

Going to jail, guranteed!

**Ocean/Choir:**

And she's a freaky monster!

**Choir:**

Yes, there's a problem!

**Ocean:**

I'm the solution!

Darwin had a theory called

**Choir:**

*Evolution!*

**Ocean:**

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

We need a little less of them

A little more of me!

**Mischa/Ricky:**

What the world needs is people like me

To keep it all spinning around

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

Mmm, she gets up!

**Constance/Jane/Noel:**

We can't all be heroes

No!

Most of us?

Zero-ohs!

**Ocean [*ad-libbing*]:**

Me

Me me

Me me

Me me

Me me

Oh oh

A little more of

*Me*!

**Mischa/Ricky:**

She gets up!

Oh 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

Mmm, she gets up!

She gets up!

Some stay down

**Constance/Jane/Noel:**

We can't all be heroes

No!

Most of us?

Zero-ohs

Some fly high

She gets up

She gets up

**Ocean:**

I get up!

I get up!

**Choir:**

Some stay down

**Ocean:**

And no one's gonna keep me down!

*Doooown!*

## Trivia

* There were two previous versions of "What The World Needs", called "Play to Win" and "Choose Me!"
* Some performances vary the lines of this song, such as "*Pokémon, Spiderman, this kid doesn't have an attention span!*" and "*Ooh, it's so groovy, to stay at home and watch a Transformer movie!*", instead naming different things.

## Official Audio

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