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Waiting for You Lyrics

I've been waiting for you
Never found anything else to do
But waiting for you

I've been calling your name
Never found anything else the same
Nothing's the same

I keep hearing your name
Nothing else sounds the same
As hearing your name

I've been hoping for you
What else can i do
But keep hoping for you

You can kill a lot of time
If you really put your mind to it
or leave it all behind
and never go through it

What else can i do

Keep waiting for you
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Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

this song is really good, especially the lyrics. i heard it on the OC and bought it on itunes right away. to me it means that theres this one person who youve been waiting for and waiting for but nothing really ever happens so all you can do is hope and you hope and hope and hope and you try to find something thats anything remotely like this feeling and you cant, all you want is this person youve been waiting for. i relate this to a friend that i have who i want to be more than a friend, but all i can do is wait and hope, but in the end all I can do is just that hope. i think the chorus is more of talking to yourself. "you can kill a lot of time if you really wanna put your mind to it" this person knows youvebeen waiting but its kind of like your killing time waiting for that person.

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

Waiting for someone. Ignoring how it tears you apart. Spending every waking moment waiting, hoping. Helpless.

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

I see this having 2 possible intended meanings--

  1. waiting for Christ to come back because I know B.Harper is a big religous guy;
  2. waiting for someone sick to get better, based on: 'I've been hoping for you What else can i do But keep hoping for you

You can kill a lot of time If you really put your mind to it or leave it all behind and never go through it '

or the more obvious and relatable to everyone...

  1. he's having a hard time getting over a past love.

I think (2) makes the most sense.

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

to me the song is about thinking about one girl, all the time and just waiting for them to come back to you, or to realize what they can have with you. althought i could be completly wrong, thats just how i relate it to myself

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

waitin 4 some1 2 grow up n realise ur da best thing that ever damn happened to them is what it means 2 me. uv done everything n sed everything n theyre just 2 damn proud 2 do a friggin thing about it. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

this song is really good. its like when a close friend or a girlfriend/boyfriend moves away from you or goes on vacation for a long period of time. as much as you dont want to, you feel like your sitting around the house literally waiting for this person. you are killing time and just thinking about this person, hearing this persons name. you feel desperate wasting your time for this person and you try not to, but you miss them so much and are so in love that "what else can you do"

when he says

"or leave it all behind and never go through it" , i think he is saying that in reality you have control of your life and you dont have to be in this relationship, feeling this way, and you could end it and leave it all behind. but its too hard so you keep on waiting

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

This song takes on a personal meaning for me. My husband became an alcoholic 5 years into our marriage of 10 years. I just keep waiting for the "real him", and I am always hoping....or wondering if I should leave it all behind. So much time has passed while I've been hoping. He is not abusive, he goes to work everyday; but when he comes home and on weekends he drinks and ignores me and our 10 year old daughter.

Cover art for Waiting for You lyrics by Ben Harper

He is stuck, and there's nothing he can do but WAIT.

This person is lock n the idea and he is stuck and thought he has no options left.

It's letting go song.

 
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