The World As We Know It

Album: The City Sleeps in Flames (2005)
Play Video
  • Time is becoming
    More precious than gold
    All those times wasted alone
    Starving children the poison waters

    And the suffocating skies
    We won't get another chance this time
    We won't get a second chance this time

    You'll be lucky if you make it out alive
    Haven't we lost our minds?
    What the hell were we all thinking?
    Now they're choosing sides

    This is the world
    This is the world

    A virus known as rage
    Is brutally destroying
    And spreading all over the place
    A bleeding culture
    A dying nation

    When the money controls the tide
    We won't get another chance this time
    We won't get a second chance this time

    You'll be lucky if you make it out alive
    Haven't we lost our minds?
    What the hell were we all thinking?
    Now they're choosing sides
    Well this is the world as we know it
    Have we lost our minds?

    The tension is rising and rising
    And the world is at stake
    Take back what belongs to you, by God
    Before it's to late
    TAKE IT BACK!
    TAKE IT BACK!
    TAKE IT BACK!

    So close your eyes
    And paint the picture
    The sunset starring back
    Won't last forever, forever
    Just close your eyes

    And paint the picture
    'Cause the world we could've had
    Would have been better, much better
    Just close your eyes

    And paint the picture
    'Cause the sunset starring back
    Won't last forever, forever Writer/s: BRIAN MCTERNAN, CHAD LANE CRAWFORD, DAVID JOHN WILSON, PETER ALLEN COSTA, POUYAN SEAN AFKARY, STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER KIRBY, TYSON CURTIS STEVENS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Waterloobullet from Las Vegas, NvThis song is about war on the country.How it is to be stuck in the middle of it.How it is to be one fighting in it.
see more comments

Editor's Picks

Graduation Songs

Graduation SongsFact or Fiction

Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?

Gary Brooker of Procol Harum

Gary Brooker of Procol HarumSongwriter Interviews

The lead singer and pianist for Procol Harum, Gary talks about finding the musical ideas to match the words.

Director Nick Morris ("The Final Countdown")

Director Nick Morris ("The Final Countdown")Song Writing

Nick made some of the biggest videos on MTV, including "The Final Countdown," "Heaven" and "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)."

Dan Reed

Dan ReedSongwriter Interviews

Dan cracked the Top 40 with "Ritual," then went to India and spent 2 hours with the Dalai Lama.

Julian Lennon

Julian LennonSongwriter Interviews

Julian tells the stories behind his hits "Valotte" and "Too Late for Goodbyes," and fills us in on his many non-musical pursuits. Also: what MTV meant to his career.

Matt Sorum

Matt SorumSongwriter Interviews

When he joined Guns N' Roses in 1990, Matt helped them craft an orchestral sound; his mezzo fortes and pianissimos are all over "November Rain."