When the world ends
Collect your things
You're coming with me
When the world ends
You tuckle up yourself with me
Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing
The day the world is over
We'll be lying in bed

I'm gonna rock you like a baby when the cities fall
We will rise as the building's crumble
Float there and watch it all
Amidst the burning, we'll be churning
You know, love will be our wings
The passion rises up from the ashes
When the world ends

When the world ends
You're gonna come with me
We're going to be crazy
Like a river bends
We're going to float
Through the criss cross of the mountains
Watch them fade to nothing
When the world ends
You know that's what's happening now
I'm going to be there with you somehow, oh...

I'm going to tie you up like a baby in a carriage car
Your legs won't work cause you want me so
You just lie spread to the wall
The love you got is surely
All the love that I would ever need
I'm going to take you by my side
And love you tall, â??til the world ends

Oh, but don't you worry about a thing
No, 'cause I got you here with me
Don't you worry about a
Just you and me
Floating through the empty, empty
Just you and me
Oh, graces
Oh, grace

Oh, when the world ends
We'll be burning one
When the world ends
We'll be sweet makin love
Oh, you know when the world ends
I'm going to take you aside and say
Let's watch it fade away, fade away
And the world's done
Ours just begun
It's done
Ours just begun

We're gonna dive into the emptiness
We'll be swimming
I'm going to walk you through the pathless roads
I'm going to take you to the top of the mountain that's no longer there
I'm going to take you to bed and love you, I swear
Like the end is here

I'm going to take you up to
I'm going to take you down on you
I'm going to hold you like an angel, angel

I'm going to love you
I'm going to love you
When the world ends
I'm going to hold you
When the world is over
We'll just be beginning...



Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by Mellow_Harsher

Track duration: 03:31

"When the World Ends" as written by David John Matthews, Glen Ballard

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:such a romantic song.
    Flag katrinabalentineon September 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:its romantic and makes me want the world to end.
    Flag lemona9on August 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:not a comment about the song's meaning, but more of what it does for me

    anytime Im feeling down or anything other than happy, warm and fuzzy, I just sing along with any of their live tracks of When The World Ends (currently Live tracks Vol 10 for me) and Im instantly smiling and grooving along with Dave and the boys. There is no place in your soul that this song wont clean the negativity from.

    Thanx guys!
    Flag Anthony Pon January 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:when they perform this song live, i love how dave ends the lyrics with we'll just be begi... he never finishes the word beginning
    Flag yelladkciron October 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:a great song, pretty clear what it means- i got introduced to it by the love of my life, and all i can think about when i hear it is her. (sigh) i just wanna hold her right now...
    Flag everything4heron September 18, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I LOVE this song. The music at the beginnin-- it just makes me happy. And he's soo...into the song, you know? He sings the first line extremely sexily... "Ah...when the-worlds ends...collect your things...you're comin' with me--when the world ends..."

    I LOVE it.
    =]]
    Flag trn3ngoon May 10, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:everyone knows the literal meaning to this song, but to me it's different.. i take this song as once you finally get to be with that one girl you've been after for a while, it's like the world is ending.. even though it's really not, to you it feels like time is stopping and the world is just exploding around you and that you are floating on thin air
    Flag Ziggy45on May 02, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I'm reading you, Me2.

    I love the message of corporal to spiritual transformation in the lyrics.

    This totally goes beyond the body having sex. It's about the mind, the soul in rapture. This is about life after death.

    And the groove, not to mention his vocal stylings--sexy as hell--or heaven. You decide. It is definitely passionately destructive, like the process of shedding the cocoon to complete total metamorphosis and begin a new life--after "death."

    "Love will be our wings..."
    Flag GreyBlueEyeson August 26, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:when anyones physical world ends.. they become non existant physically.
    so to follow a thread about the existence of someone in a vacuum of nothingness...we must change our thoughts from a physical "world" to the spiritual "world".

    mountains are expressed here as symbols of power.

    powers such as envy and bitterness and strife and malice and hatred. dave is describing himself as rescuing another from their inability to oversome these powers that are against them.

    their spiritual "world" that this "baby" or "lover" exists within that contains these powers that must be overcome is changing with the interjection of grace, and mercy, and love that dave is applying.

    dave describes it as floating across these "mountains" as they together watch them fade away to nothing.

    rendering these "mountains" powerless.

    this can only be a spiritual "world" with spiritual mountains being described.

    certainly not a physical world.

    dave cant physically exist without a physical world.

    thats silly....
    Flag Me2on July 20, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Ahh.
    This song makes me happy.
    I love it.
    Flag gravekeeperon June 26, 2006   Link

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