all the world s a masquerade made up of fools and philosophers were it to rain on our charade all washes away except for our true colors if any people bothered looking for truth please instead we choose to follow footsteps of fools please if nothing s new under the sun for me and you won t somebody please stop the world stop the world i wanna get off stop the world stop the world i wanna get off if we forget yesterday we re bound to repeat it tomorrow it s not too late to start today better off safe than sorry do unto those as you would do to yourselves please we need more feet to walk in one another s shoes please there s nothing new under the sun for me and you won t somebody please stop the world stop the world i wanna get off stop the world stop the world where there is love where there is love stop the world stop the world i wanna get off stop the world stop the world i wanna get off you gotta stop you gotta stop it you gotta stop stop the world stop the world i wanna get off stop the world stop the world where there is love aaah stop the world stop the world ooooh all the world s a masquerade made up of fools