

Another thing to note is that sometimes she adds the line " The sky gets dark and people are talking, I follow my heart and people are talking" when performing it live.Ībout the song, Jonah Weiner of Rolling Stone wrote "describing a passionate romance, her mind can't help but jump-cut not only to the relationship's inevitable failure, but past that, to death." The lyrics to the song were also heavily praised, with some calling Lorde a "lyrical genius". The closing lyric to this song (and to the album overall), "Let 'em talk" can be related to the opening lyric of the album, "Don't you think that it's boring how people talk?" in Tennis Court.

Lyrically the song depicts a world "which is composed of haters, existential musings, endless Internet chatter and the one person with whom can escape all the judgments."

"A World Alone" was written by Lorde (credited under Ella Yelich O'Connor) and Joel Little.
