This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Tell me what you've done yourself
I would like to know
Write it on the rocks and then
Tell me where to go
I used to wait
Wait
Tell me you're the lucky one
How fast you can throw
Tell me all the things you've done
I would like to know
Why you say wait
Why
Tell me how you like yourself
Tell me how you go
Unlike you were someone else, now
Wanna know why you say wait
Why you say
Oh wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
So tell me something bad you've done
Tell me 'bout your ghost
Tell me bout the game you won
Name the one loss
Why you say wait
Wait
Tell me 'bout your magic touch
Every coin you toss
The cat get out, the dog get in
That's how it's always been
Why you say wait
Why
Now tell me what's so funny, man
Tell me, what'd I miss?
Write it on the rocks and then
Tell me how it is
Why you say wait
Why you say
Oh wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say wait
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say wait
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
I would like to know
Write it on the rocks and then
Tell me where to go
I used to wait
Wait
Tell me you're the lucky one
How fast you can throw
Tell me all the things you've done
I would like to know
Why you say wait
Why
Tell me how you like yourself
Tell me how you go
Unlike you were someone else, now
Wanna know why you say wait
Why you say
Oh wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
So tell me something bad you've done
Tell me 'bout your ghost
Tell me bout the game you won
Name the one loss
Why you say wait
Wait
Tell me 'bout your magic touch
Every coin you toss
The cat get out, the dog get in
That's how it's always been
Why you say wait
Why
Now tell me what's so funny, man
Tell me, what'd I miss?
Write it on the rocks and then
Tell me how it is
Why you say wait
Why you say
Oh wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why you say
Why you say wait
Why
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say wait
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say
It's not worth saving, when you say wait
Why you say wait
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Get in the swing boys, get in the swing
Lyrics submitted by zeppelingirl001
Wait Lyrics as written by David Foster Allee Willis
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I think she's talking about somebody she really admires and is almost obsessed with. She's impatient and impulsive as opposed to the person she's talking about who wants her to just chill, enjoy the moment and not jump the gun. I really like this song cos I guess a lot of the time we just need people to tell us to wait.
This song is in the new movie Children of Men, it's funny because the movie is set in the future, and they talk about this song as "classic rock". Ha!
I'm thinking of a person who boasts about themselves hiding their imperfections. It seems to be wearing on the person and after their done telling them what he/she wants to hear almost revels the truth... "wait". The other person is trying to get it out and tell them it's okay, you don't have to always be perfect and that we're only human type of thing. Trying to get them to reveal their WHOLE selves instead of what people wants them to hear.