I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this moment all my life
But it's not quite right
And this real
It's impossible, if possible at whose blind word
So clear, but so unheard

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this silence all night long
It's just a matter of time
To appear sad
With the same old decent lazy eye fixed to rest on you
Aim free was so untrue

Everyone's so intimately rearranged
Everyone's so focused, clearly with such shine

Everyone's so intimately rearranged
Everyone's so focused, clearly with such shine

Locked and loaded
Still the same old decent lazy eye straight through your gaze
That's why I said I relate
I said we relate
It's so fun to relate

It's the room, the sun, and the sky
The room, the sun, and the sky

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this moment


Lyrics submitted by nateh, edited by QuantumEcho, moorblossom

Lazy Eye Lyrics as written by Gary L. Maurer Daniel R. Messe

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    so i read through all of the comments to see if anyone had the same idea as me, and no one did. some had parts that were similar. maybe that makes me wrong, idk, but here is my take on the song: "i've been waiting i've been waiting for this moment all my life but it's not quite right

    and this 'real' it's impossible if possible at who's blind word so clear but so unheard" so there is this seemingly perfect moment, but it isn't quite right because he is still himself...i mean, he was expecting a fairy tale like moment, and that just didn't happen. he still has his lazy eye, which the lead singer, Brian, really does have. it is clear to him that this is what it's like to have a moment like this, but it was so unheard because he expected it to be completely different from the way, maybe, his friends told him these moments were like. i have definitely felt that way many times in life so far. "i've been waiting i've been waiting for this silence all night long it's just a matter of time" since the moment so far isn't going as planned or expected, he is hoping the silence of another room will bring the person he wants to be with closer to him. i'm thinking there is a girl and she likes him, so this is his opportunity, but he thought that once they both liked each other things would just fall into place, but it didn't turn out like that, and now he is finally alone with her, and it's just a matter of time until things become they way he wants them to. "to appear sad with the same 'ol decent lazy eye fixed to rest on you aim free and so untrue" so i think this is saying his lazy eye makes him look sad in a way, and his subconscious sort of believed that the lazy eye wouldn't be there but "the same 'ol decent lazy eye" still remains, focusing on and liking her nonetheless. now that he knows the way things really are in the moments, everyone is rearranged because he sees things in a different way, but they maybe seem even more intimate now because they still love each other with all of those imperfections, because everyone has their own lazy eye. "lost and loaded still the same 'ol decent lazy eye straight through your gaze that's why i said i relate i said we relate it's so fun to relate" lost and loaded i think means he is confused about this revelation, but he gained knowledge and experience from it. now he feels like he can relate to everyone because he knows they have their faults, and he night have found hers or something, so they relate. then i think when he says "its so fun to relate" he is actually being sarcastic because sometimes imperfections really suck, so it's a real blast when it makes you feel like shit... "it's the room the sun and the sky" i think that is just him taking it all in, how it isn't how he imagined but it's still how it is, etc. i love this song!

    DiabolicalLoseron May 28, 2008   Link

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