World Sick

Broken Social Scene are a Canadian indie rock musical collective. This surging anthem is the opening track from their fourth studio album, Forgiveness Rock Record. Founding member Brendan Canning explained the song's meaning to The Sun April 30, 2010: "World Sick is about getting ploughed from all directions and what you may or may not need to hear. Do I need this information as soon as I wake up? No. Do we need to do good by the world - YES!!!"

Canning explained the album title to The Sun: "Forgiveness is what the world needs. It's what you need, it's what your brother needs, it's what your mother needs, it's what the Catholic Church needs, it's what Margaret Thatcher needed. You get my point, right! Simple human equation."

Canning expanded on the song to The Aquarian Weekly: "The lyrics and song title are very much in line with death and dying. You open up your morning paper and you're confronted with so much sadness. It's a petty problem for us living in the privileged Western world. But there's a helpless feeling of, 'My God, what am I doing?' I encouraged Kevin to go deep and discover the lyrics because it was a long work in progress getting words right. But the guitar licks came quick. The last thing we added was the loopy guitar preceding the tribal drums. That was the one missing element we filled in."