Different World

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**Different World** is a song by Norwegian DJ and producer Alan Walker, K-391 and Sofia Carson featuring CORSAK. It was included on Walker's debut studio album of the same name, Different World, which was released on 14 December 2018. The song was originally known as **Sevje** by K-391.

## Description

The song is set in common time and has a tempo of 130 beats per minute. It is written in the key of G minor with a chord progression of Gm-Eb-F-Dm.

## Background

The song was written by Swedish Grammis-nominated songwriter Shy Martin, among others including Fredrik Borch Olse, Gunnar Greve, Magnus Bertelsen, James Daniel Njie Eriksen, Kenneth Nilsen, Marcus Arnbekk and Mengzhou Hu. It was released alongside an accompanying campaign titled "#CreateADifferentWorld", in which Walker addresses the importance of climate change. He said "I want to use my voice to raise awareness. And that's what this song is about. There is still time, together we can create a different world."

Billboard noted the song as "depicting the sad state of our planet with hard-to-watch images of polluted oceans, forest fires and communities under water," along with suggesting the lack of awareness or pretence regarding the issue of climate change by people in power.

## Music videos

### Lyric video

The lyric video for the song was released on the same day as the song's release, on 30 November 2018. It was directed and edited by Alexander Zarate Frez. Simon Compagnet had produced the graphics for the video while additional footage was provided by Bradley Wickham and Bror Bror.

For most of the video, images were depicted of oceans filled with trash, air pollution, wildfires, hurricanes, and other kinds of disaster scenarios linked to climate change. For the third quarter of the video, the song takes a more wishful tone and the visuals change to vistas of nature, aiming to show what could be if people worked together to combat climate change.

### Alternative video

An alternative music video was released on 13 December 2018, produced in a vertical format and meant to be viewed on a smartphone in portrait orientation. It was also directed by Alexander Zarate Frez, with Larry Reibman as director of photography. Marie Hjelmerud produced the motion graphics, along with Fredrik Winge as 2nd editor. It also features Sofia Carson inside one of the messages as she sings.

The video was social media-oriented, using platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat as its medium. An excerpt from a speech at the 1992 Rio Summit by Severn Cullis-Suzuki was played near the two-minute mark.

## Lyrics

All we know

Left untold

Beaten by a broken dream

Nothing like

What it used to be

We've been chasing our demons down an empty road

Been watching our castle turning into dust

Escaping our shadows just to end up here once more

And we both know

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time

We are stuck on answers we can't find

But we got time

And even though we might have lost tonight

The skyline reminds us of a different time

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time

Broken smile

Tired eyes

I can feel your longing heart

Call my name

Howling from afar

We've been fighting our demons just to stay afloat

Been building our castle just to watch it fall

Been running forever just to end up here once more

And now we know

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time

We are stuck on answers we can't find

But we got time

And even though we might have lost tonight

The skyline reminds us of a different time

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time

Take me back

Back to the mountain side

Under the northern lights

Chasing the stars

Take me back

Back to the mountain side

When we were full of life

Back to the start

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time

We are stuck on answers we can't find

But we got time

And even though we might have lost tonight

The skyline reminds us of a different time

This is not the world we had in mind

But we got time