While You Wait for the Others

Grizzly Bear

To make it all worthwhile
All your useless presentations
Are weighing on my time
You could beg for forgiveness
As long as you like
Or just wait out the evening
And always ask me why
Yes you'll only leave me dry
So I'll ask you kindly to make your way

And what was there
The perfect glare
We all fall through

While you wait on the answers
That I'll pretend to find
Keeping up with emotions
Still occupies our time
You could hope for substance
As long as you like
Or just wait out the evening
And always ask me why
Yes you'll always ask me why
I'll ask you kindly to make your way

And what was left
The perfect glare
We all fall through

And all we want

And what was there
And what was there
And what wasn't there


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While You Wait for the Others Lyrics as written by Edward Droste Christopher Bear

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    I relate to this so much.

    For me, it describes a break-up you know has got to happen, but you don't want it to. You fool yourself into thinking you're working out what's wrong, but you know that the good times are long gone. The chorus, I guess, describes how the break-up is the right thing, the easy thing to do...

    In short- you can't explain what's wrong but you know it's bad, and you know there's no chance of sorting it out.

    leahperon May 21, 2009   Link

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