Waiting for the World to Fall

Artist

Jars of Clay

Album

Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lyrics

I’m afraid it’s been too long
to try to find the reasons why
I let my world close in around
a smaller patch of fading sky
But now I’ve grown beyond the walls
to where I’ve never been
And it’s still winter in my wonderland

Chorus
I’m waiting for the world to fall
I’m waiting for the scene to change
I’m waiting when the colors come
I’m waiting to let my world come undone

I close my eyes and try to see
the world unbroken underneath
The farther off and already
it just might make the life I lead
A little more than make-believe
when all my skies are painted blue
And the clouds don’t ever change
the shape of who I am to You

Chorus
I’m waiting for the world to fall
I’m waiting for the scene to change
I’m waiting when the colors come
I’m waiting to let my world come undone

When I catch the light of falling stars my view is changing me
My view is changing me

I’m waiting

©2005 Bridge Building

Jars of Clay’s Dan Haseltine on being a part of this soundtrack:

I’ve been a fan ever since I was a little, little, little boy. I watched the cartoons and the books were read to me when I was a kid and I was always fascinated. As a kid you always wanted to find new worlds or explore. And I’d always open up my closet door and just hoping that maybe if I walked back far enough I wouldn’t just hit my head on the back of the closet but that there’d actually be something there and much in the same way that Superman would have caused me to want to try to fly and fall, this was a story that just captured my heart when I was really, really little. So it seemed, well it was real exciting to hear that they were making the movie and that we’d have a chance to maybe respond to those images in this version of it.

The song is really a song about discovery. It’s kind of being in a world where things maybe aren’t as they should be or kind of living a mundane existence and wanting something more and then getting a glimpse of what that really is like and having your world kind of shift, your paradigm change, and that’s what we loved about this story, was just the way there was this great movement and discovery of a whole new world. I think the imagination is something that you know we kind of fail to capture for kids these days and I remember loving the chance to just create this world in my own mind, and this song is really, I think, about just opening up a new landscape.

The name of the song is called “Waiting for the World to Fall” and it’s a song that talks about wanting to kinda be removed from maybe our regular mundane or grey kinda life. And move into just a whole other world of experience. Kind of have life, kinda breathe back into an existence that has grown stale.

I’m such a movie fan. I love movies. I’ve grown up … Storytelling, through generations, has taken on different forms. And movies … you know … I think it really came into its own in our generation in terms of people … just the special effects and the ways that they can tell a story. Being a part of that, even on this level, enhancing those things with music and what we do is just an amazing privilege.