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If You Wait

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If you wait
If I could ask you to wait
I'd get back, somehow
To you

If I could ask you to wait
I'll bring myself
Home to you

I would walk on this road
Through mud, through grass, through dust, through rain
Whatever I find in my way
I'll power through
I'll power through
Home to you
If you wait
If I could ask you to wait
But I can't ask you to wait

Though it breaks me:
Go
I must ask you to go
Go
I must ask you to go
Please go
(I must ask you to go)

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metropolis On Jan 22, 2010

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Cover art for If You Wait lyrics by Pain of Salvation

by sokorny

10y ago

Could this be about asking for a loved one to await for your return? That return could be literally (perhaps physically have moved away), or it could be mentally (that is not in the right headspace at the moment / have issues to sort out), or could it be asking for them to wait for them after death?

Another "wait" could be that they are on their death bed, and he wants them to hold on for them.

But ultimately at the end determines it is best if they do not wait ... but go on (in some way or another).

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