**Title:** The World [Intro – cinematic, wide, slightly melancholic] The world is never what it seems… [Verse 1] It builds cathedrals and atomic bombs in the same century Cures diseases and creates new pandemics for profit Gives us sunsets that take your breath away then reminds you how small and insignificant you are It’s capable of a beauty that breaks your heart and a cruelty that makes you ashamed to be human [Verse 2] It makes two people fall in love from opposite sides of the planet then divides them with a line drawn on a map Creates works of art that move generations and at the same time lets children die of hunger It’s unfair, chaotic, magnificent, terrible It’s the best and the worst place possible [Pre-Chorus] The more you look at it, the harder it is to understand [Chorus] Brutal beauty... grace in the violent It’s heaven and hell in the same room It’s grace and brutality, poetry and vomit It’s everything we should hate and everything we can’t stop loving Brutal beauty... grace in the violent Brutal beauty... grace in the violent Brutal beauty... Grace in the violent… [Verse 3] It gives us the purest love and the deepest suffering It makes us dream and wakes us with a slap It teaches us to laugh through tears and to cry while we dance [Bridge – spoken, reflective] And yet we keep living inside it. Every single day. Choosing to stay. [Final Chorus – big, emotional, wide] Brutal beauty... grace in the violent It’s the place where monsters and saints are born Where everything can be destroyed in a second and everything can be reborn the second after Brutal beauty... grace in the violent Brutal beauty... grace in the violent And in the end… **It's brutal, it's beautiful, it's violent grace.** [Outro – soft, almost hopeful] And despite everything… we stay.
