Collective Soul ~ The world I know (1995) lyrics

Song: 'The world I know'
Artist: Collective Soul
Composers: Ed Roland & Ross Childress
Album: Self titled blue album
Subject: Environmental issues

Images: include water (clean and polluted), fish (sturgeon), birds (seagulls), polar bears (global warming) - some places are New York US, Beijing China, The Amazon (Brazil), The Tar Sands (Alberta Canada), planet Earth, and a few others (not in that order).

Lyrics:

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.

Are we listening?
Hymns of offering.
Have we eyes to see?
Love is gathering.
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one.

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

(Repeat verses)

I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Collective
• Soul
• The
• World
• know
• 1995
• Environment
• Alternative
• Rock
• Pollution
• Deforestation
• Global
• Warming
• Climate
• Change
• Energy

[MegaDireWolf]

The song not about the enviromental issue, but depression.

[naturespaths]

@MegaDireWolf

Thanks for the insight into the song meaning. I put my own interpretation to it, seemed to work too.. environment issues can also be depressing..

[HCSAMANTHA420]

awesome video to an awesome song!..& thats sum beautiful scenery...cool

[naturespaths]

@HCSAMANTHA420

Thanks for your comment! It is an awesome song :) Cheers!

[StealthEmerald]

Bravo man - simply divine:)))

[naturespaths]

@StealthEmerald

Thanks very much for your comment, its an awesome song :)

[naturespaths]

@williamzelaya

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank-you. I dont know about the soundtrack though

[williamzelaya]

Nice song!!! but can you tell me if this song it's a sountrack of some movie???

[naturespaths]

@brainwavedisc

Thank-you ! Cheers 

[brainwavedisc]

excellent work!