I Can’t Change The World

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Aug. 19, 20131 viewer

I Can’t Change The World Lyrics

[Verse 1]
A gun goes off in a far off city
A siren wails right here at home
Well sometimes life ain't all that pretty
When you're watching it all alone

[Verse 2]
You build a wall around your feelings
Just another heart afraid to break
And you don't wanna let me in cause really
What difference can I make?

[Chorus]
I can't change the world
Baby, that's for sure
But if you let me, girl
I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

[Verse 3]
So let Jesus look down on this mess
And let the powers that be just fuss and fight
Cause everyone needs to pick their battles and
We all realize

[Chorus]
That I can't change the world
Baby, that's for sure
But if you let me, girl
I can change yours
I bet I can change yours

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[Verse 4]
And every time you light a flame
You just get burned and you feel like
It's all in vain
You feel like
You need to learn that no one's gonna save you
No, no one's gonna save you

But I'm standing here
My heart's on my sleeve
Never gonna let you down
Never ever gonna leave you

[Outro]
Baby, that's for sure
Oh I can't change the world
But I can change yours
I bet I can change
Yours

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“I Can’t Change The World” is perhaps Brad’s most powerful ballad he’s released, not because of his vocals, but because of the meaning.

The song describes how no-one can control the world, bad things happen and no-one can control that or make it not happen, but Brad claims that he can change a single person’s world for the better.

The song as fans know it is much different than it was originally intended, Brad said,

[I]t was up-tempo and actually not a ballad. It didn’t have much magic that way. It had power, but no magic.

Brad then changed the music to make it a slow paced ballad. He went on to say that such a powerful message in a song wouldn’t work as a fast paced song as the message wouldn’t be as easily understood.

Ultimately, Brad said,