| Collective Soul – The World I Know Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Here's my take... "Has our conscience shown? Has the sweet breeze blown? Has all the kindness gone? Hope still lingers on." To me this part speaks of helplessness in the world I'm living. When I try to help someone, I feel like it's never enough, and then I'd give up. "Are we listening to hymns of offering? Have we eyes to see that love is gathering?" I translate "hymns of offering" as a cry of help of those in this world. It's like they're crying and crying and all I have is... "I drink myself of newfound pity Sitting alone in New York City And I don't know why." That is what I feel like every other day when I'm on the subway or when I'm walking on the street. Small things get in the way while there are bigger problems out there. "All the words that I've been reading have now started the act of bleeding into one." Everything that I read or heard (on the media) is just getting too much that it's become like one huge hindrance of seeing the actual need. "So I walk up on high and I step to the edge to see my world below." I take a new perspective of my life and the world. My pain and suffering is so small compared to what's going on out there in the world. "And I laugh at myself as the tears roll down. 'Cause it's the world I know. It's the world I know." I realize that I've been very selfish. The world I know is very small; it consists of only me. |
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