Gavin Rossdale , during an interview with Billboard, explained that wrote this song thinking about what is happening in the world
I was just thinking of this dystopian world, this underbelly of frustration and fear and persecution and distrust just everything that’s going on around us all the time...
[Verse]
We don't know what is coming
But we know where we've been
In this city of ghosts
I find myself again
There's seventeen ways you tried to kill me
From the inside
And now all this scars, all this wounds
Will be healed
[Chorus]
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
(Dystopia) I find so hard to let go
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
(Dystopia) I find so hard to let go
(Dystopia)
[Verse]
I know you're living on the edge
In a minefield
I've waited such a long time
For you to feel
I've missed you for the longest
It has been so long
There was a time you were
But now I know you're gone
[Chorus]
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
(Dystopia) I find so hard to let go
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
[Verse]
Everything you know is wrong
Everything you know is sand
Everything you know is broken
Everything you know is gone
Everything you know
Everything you know
Everything you know
Everything you know
[Chorus]
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
(Dystopia) I find so hard to let go
(Dystopia) Things got so out of control
(Dystopia) I find so hard to let go
(Dystopia)
Dystopia was written by Gavin Rossdale.
Dystopia was produced by Gavin Rossdale.