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Wait For Love Lyrics

Ahh, Wait for love
Ahh, wait for love
Wait for love, wait for love, wait for love
Wait for love, wait for love

Ahh, got someone
On my mind
And she don’t make me weep the way you do
Time, oh she holds me all the time
And she don’t make me wait the way you do

Wait for love, wait for love
Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love
Wait for love, wait for love
Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love

Ahh, got someone
On my mind
And she holds me pretty much the way you do
Time, oh she holds me all the time
And she don’t make me weep the way you do

Wait for love, wait for love
Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love
Wait for love, wait for love
Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love
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Cover art for Wait For Love lyrics by Josh Ritter

i love this song.. i think its about healing after a relationship, one that was full of ups and downs but ultimately too many downs. the person moves on and finds love (or something close) in someone else, and finds that if you just wait for the right person, you can find that love that you've always wanted. love should be easy and fun and everything you want it to be, and that's why its important to find someone who understands you and wouldnt think of ever hurting you. sometimes you just have to wait :)

elysium, I love this song and I love you for saying that

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thanks mr fisk. happy to share the love :)

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well put elysium!! with mr fisk. love you for saying that!

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Cover art for Wait For Love lyrics by Josh Ritter

I think this song is definitely about a break up and just telling yourself afterwards that you have to be patient and wait for love. I don't think that the person he has on his mind really exists, but they're more of an idea of what love should really be. Sometimes we have to wait for love.

Hi controlfreak -- Yep, I see it as a meditation on patience, and the passage of Time. In fact, my close analysis of the words takes the interpretation that the "someone" on his mind may indeed be Time itself. She holds him, and all of us, of course, all the time. We can't escape her, so perhaps we should embrace her.

I wrote this piece contrasting both the very different versions of Wait for Love on Historical Conquests. And I took some inspiration and insight from the lyric poet Petrarch, who wrangled with these themes time and again:

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Cover art for Wait For Love lyrics by Josh Ritter

Who doesn't get a little impatient with Love now and then? Who hasn't begged or baited her hasty return?

Who doesn't get a little bored with the constancy of Time? She HOLDS us ALL the time, of course. She's Miss Right Now.

How to stay sane while we wait?

Here's an in-depth interpretation and some ideas, including a cameo by Italian lyric poet Francesco Petrarch:

http://girlinthegloaming.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/a-time-to-wait/

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