Lyrics

VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE

We are all victims of circumstance
And we all should take our one and only chance
To be in history
To be in history
To be in history
Our own way

Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody

Someone had to be Abraham Lincoln
To supposedly free Negro slaves
Someone had to be Adolf Hitler
To send six million Jews to their graves

We are all victims of circumstance
And we all should take our one and only chance
To be in history
To be in history
To be in history
Our own way

Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody

Someone had to form the Ku Klux Klan
To terrorize helpless black people (My people)
Someone had to march on Washington
To fight for the Civil Rights bill

We are all victims of circumstance
And we all should take our one and only chance
To be in history
To be in history
To be in history
Our own way

Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody
Everybody's got to be somebody

Someone had to be Judas Iscariot
'Cause he really did not understand
That someone had to be Jesus Christ
To die on the cross to save mankind

Fifteen minutes of fame
Fifteen minutes of shame
Fame, shame - it's all the same
It's fate and we're not to blame
Fifteen minutes of fame
Fifteen minutes of shame
That's the name of the game
It's fate and we're not to blame