| Eurythmics – I Saved The World Today Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I disagree strongly with everyone's interpretations here, except for Huaso's...I think it's a devastating sad song about depression, which fits with Annie Lennox's own self-confessed history of depression and matches a lot of her other 90's/00's pessimistic lyrical themes...I think "The World" is actually "HER World"--herself, she means: she held herself together, made it through another day. As if she feels so hopeless that the burden of just getting through a day in life is so great, it feels like a task as heavy as saving the whole world. "I Saved The World Today" is almost saying "Well, I managed to not commit suicide--today, at least."...I believe the charity/"save the world" angle some see in this song is wrong: she merely MENTIONS that in a world full of hungry people, she has everything she should require, BUT she is still miserable inside--I don't think this song is about charity or giving to the poor at all--it's very personal...in the end, she's not exactly hopeful, but almost pleading ("bad things go away...please good things stay") or trying to convince herself ("everybody's happy now!") that whatever got her through the day will get her through the next one ...even though it's a sad song, I love it, and glad "Sopranos" seems to have given it a bit more exposure than it had in 1999 when it came out on the "Peace" album | |
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