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Every face
Even the one you saw yesterday
It looks different today
Cos everything's changed since yesterday
In every possible way
Things seem different today
Not like yesterday
Is consideration
More like an exception - of consideration?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
When you're secure, do you feel much safer?
As days never change, and it's three years later
It's like your life hasn't changed,
And it's three years late
So how does it feel, to be three years late?
And watching your youth drift away
What seems different, seems different today
And what seems different, seems different today
Is consideration
More like an exception - of consideration?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
You have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
(tonight...) (tonight...)
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
Even the one you saw yesterday
It looks different today
Cos everything's changed since yesterday
In every possible way
Things seem different today
Not like yesterday
Is consideration
More like an exception - of consideration?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
When you're secure, do you feel much safer?
As days never change, and it's three years later
It's like your life hasn't changed,
And it's three years late
So how does it feel, to be three years late?
And watching your youth drift away
What seems different, seems different today
And what seems different, seems different today
Is consideration
More like an exception - of consideration?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
You have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
(tonight...) (tonight...)
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?
Lyrics submitted by JulianCasablancas
Track duration: 03:22
"You Held the World in Your Arms" as written by Colin/woomble Newton
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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Also perfectly sums up my last relationship. First love and then 3 years just disappeared on me. But I held the world in my arms, I didn't want to change, cause I knew that'd mean growing apart from him.
But, that's the great thing about these kinda songs is that they could mean something special to someone and somethin' completely different to teh next person, That makes a powerful song - fantastic, the violins go well even though I hate violins!
Nice song, I originally heard it on FIFA 2004, Only downloaded it recently and it is fantastic, I'm not a idlewild fan but this is an awesome song.
About loss.. You Held the world in your arm's is a metaphor for saying "You had it all, but you've lost it all" kinda like "you had so much going for you - but you fucked it all up"... That's my take, maybe about suicide saying he was a young kid with the world at his feet.. he could have done anything, but could just be about somebody with a great job, good personality and a nice person but fucked it up with drugs or something..
Fantastic song ;D
My strongest memeory of this song revovles around my mates' funeral - he was only 17, and this was played as all his old schoolmates walked ito the crematorium. The theme of loss and lost youth was quite appropraite, obviously - to us, this was what had happened, and what might yet happen. Even today, I sometimes think 'my god, it's been so long!'. I might be retromapping it onto the song, but I sometimes wonder if it's not specifically about a death of a friend while you're at at a young age, or a breakup endured in youth.
100 Broken Windows is their best album, then The Remote Part, then Hope Is Important - there are songs on HII that I dislike. They're not getting worse as they go on, not at all - they're just changing. Change is good, right?
That is what the song means to me and everytime I hear I think about when we did break up.