"A Different World" is a debut song recorded by American country music artist Bucky Covington.

The song is produced by Mark Miller of Sawyer Brown, and was released by Lyric Street Records, a country label of Disney's Buena Vista Music Group.

The song is a reminiscence of the narrator's formative years, its lyrics describing how much the world has changed since his childhood.

Examples abound of how mothers "smoked and drank" during pregnancy, lead-based paint was available, children drank water out of garden hoses and rode bicycles without helmets or other safety equipment, parents physically disciplined their children when they misbehaved, towns had only one youth baseball team (per age group) and would-be players didn't always make the team ... and so on.

Certain children in the town are shown leading a simpler life than most do today, as the song's lyrics describe.