Lucinda Williams - The World's Gone Wrong feat. Brittney Spencer

Song of the Day

Minnesota Public Radio

Music Commentary, Music

4.5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Song of the Day is “The World's Gone Wrong feat. Brittney Spencer” from Lucinda Williams’ album World’s Gone Wrong, out January 23.

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0:00.0	You get up every morning to go to work.
0:14.0	He sells cars and she's a nurse.
0:20.0	Working long hours
0:21.4	Is the devil's curse
0:23.6	Things are getting tied
0:26.2	But it could be worse
0:28.4	She tries hard
0:31.2	To ignore the news
0:33.1	Nothing makes sense
0:36.0	If she gets confused
0:38.3	Between what is false and what is true
0:43.3	And she worries they won't get through
0:47.3	Come, baby, we gotta be strong
0:53.3	The dark days to get along
0:58.0	Looking for comfort in the song
1:02.0	Everybody knows the world's gone wrong
1:07.0	Everybody knows the world's gone along
1:11.6	They can see what's going down
1:17.6	They can see what's going down
1:21.6	Empty houses all over town
1:26.6	So many lost are never found and bad bad signs are all around a lot of people being put out on the street
1:40.3	is getting harder to make it to meet
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