Save The World (You Couldn't)

Hope

That's the thing with feathers

It perches in the soul

Like a rocket

And sings the tune without the words, and never stops

Never stops at all

Never stops at all


You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world or me if you needed to

You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world

If you don't mind me saying so


I've heard it in the chillest land

I've heard it on the strangest of seas

And yet not in extremity it asked a crumb

It asked a crumb of me

Asked a crumb of me


You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world or me if you needed to

You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world

If you don't mind be saying so


There is a little bit of light in these winter afternoons

And what opresses is a friend that only hums cathedral tunes

And we are heavenly hurt but we can't find a single scar

Now in the difference that is where I believe the meanings are


You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world or me if you needed to

You couldn't save the world if you wanted to

You couldn't change the world

If you don't mind be saying so


And sweetest in the gale is heard and sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird, that kept so many people warm

You couldn't save the world

You couldn't save the world

You couldn't save the world