Cover art for A World Alone by Lorde

A World Alone

Lorde
Track 10 on Pure Heroine 

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Sep. 27, 20131 viewer291.7K views

A World Alone Lyrics

[Verse 1]
That slow burn wait while it gets dark
Bruising the sun

I feel grown up with you in your car
I know it's dumb


[Verse 2]
We've both got a million bad habits to kick
Not sleeping is one

We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip
I'm biting my tongue


[Refrain]
The people are talking, people are talking
The people are talking, people are talking

[Chorus]
Raise a glass, 'cause I'm not done sayin' it
They all wanna get rough, get away with it
Let 'em talk, 'cause we're dancing in this world alone
World alone, we're alone

[Verse 3]
All my fake friends and all of their noise
Complain about work
They're studying business, I study the floor
And you haven't stopped smoking all night
Maybe the Internet raised us
Or maybe people are jerks

[Refrain]
The people are talking, people are talking
(But not you)
The people are talking, people are talking

[Chorus]
Raise a glass, 'cause I'm not done sayin' it
They all wanna get rough, get away with it
Let 'em talk, 'cause we're dancing in this world alone
World alone, we're alone
All the double-edged people and schemes
They make a mess, then go home and get clean

You're my best friend and we're dancing in a world alone
A world alone, we're all alone


[Bridge]
I know we're not everlasting
We're a train wreck waiting to happen
One day the blood won't flow so gladly
One day we'll all get still, get still


[Refrain]
The people are talking, people are talking
The people are talking, people are talking
The people are talking, people are talking
The people are talking, people are talking

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Genius Annotation

A World Alone is the closing track of the standard version of Lorde’s debut album “Pure Heroine”.
The song pictures a world where she is surrounded by shallow, fake and double-faced people, her friends included, and how she feels alone cause she doesn’t belong with them.
Even if she knows that eventually her relationship is going to end, she finds peace, and a new, different way of living in the arms of this person who doesn’t judge her.
This world she pictures is also full of haters and their talking, the Internet and how much it’s easy to write rude comments, but since she can’t control what other people say, she doesn’t care, and she lets them talk.
The song (and the album with it) ends with “Let ‘em talk” which can be related to the first line of “Tennis Court”, the opening track of the album, “Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk?”.

Also, sometimes when singing live she adds the line “The sky gets dark and people are talking, I follow my heart and people are talking”, just before “Let ‘em talk”, still reminiscing about the fact that whatever happens, people will always find something to say.

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