Mona Lisa (When The World Comes Down) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by aquamarine1421 

Cover art for Mona Lisa (When The World Comes Down) lyrics by All-American Rejects, The

I love this song, i think it's a really calming tune. I think it's about how like we as a species are making bad choices and destroying the planet, "we're going to fast" i think the lines. "here's another pity, there's another chance tried to learn a lesson but you can't" i think it means like what a pity, we keep doing harm to the planet and we never learn our lesson, we haven't changed much. i think the lines "what can we do better? when will we know how?" are talking about like what can we do to reverse what we have done.like how can we change, when will we know what exactly we can do. i think this song refers alot to global warming and the 2012 theory. but i think what makes it sooo good is that its not so much as focused on changing the planet. in the chorus he repeats several times "you can sit beside me when the world comes down" so as a whole i think the whole song is explaining the problems with our environment and that the artist feels like the world just might come crashing down one day. but he has somebody special in his life. and he really doesn't care much about what happens to the world as long as he's with them in the end. it kinda reminds me of seeing fireworks. like hey u can sit beside me and we can watch it together. and i definitely agree with whoever brought up that line from fight club. about how even the mona lisa's falling apart. i think he used it as a title just to kinda symbolize how everything will be destroyed.