Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square?
Was fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it, hypnotize it
Television made you buy it
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my
She's scared that I will take her away from there
Dreams and her country, left with no one there
Mesmerized the simple minded
Propaganda leaves us blinded
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
Was fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it, hypnotize it
Television made you buy it
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my
She's scared that I will take her away from there
Dreams and her country, left with no one there
Mesmerized the simple minded
Propaganda leaves us blinded
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and
Waiting for my girl
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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I believe that this song is about how the media infulences the general public to follow them in all means necessary. Sometimes without the public even realizing. "They disguise it, Hypnotise it. Television made you buy it." And "I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl" could simply mean they are saying that with all of this going on, there's nothing to do, but lead your own life. I believe that rather then him waiting for his "girl" as in girlfriend, he may be waiting for his daughter after school etc.
Actually, the part that he's just sitting in his car and waiting for his girl, that's what he was doing at the time he wrote the song. Otherwise, your interpretation is entirely right. I think that it's about how the media hypnotizes us, and that we realize things like this while doing something insignificant, like sitting in a car, waiting for someone to come back.
I think that ads convince you that buying a shiny car will get you a girl, and that's why he's waiting, even convincing himself (thus the repetition) that he did not waist his life studying and getting a good job and lots of money, though he subconsciously knows how his life is empty.