Waiting For The End Lyrics
This song perfectly captures that painful moment of denial when a relationship is ending.
Because "It's hard to let you go," the singer pretends to himself that he's still got the love he used to have, but in fact he's deluding himself, "holding on to what I haven't got."
"The hardest part of ending is starting again" because the pain of lost love is too heard to bear, the loneliness of an "empty room" makes it worse, the messiness of "so many things. . . left unsaid" makes it even worse, so it feels far less painful just to pretend it's all not happening. . . to delay and delay that moment when "we dead it, forget it, let it all disappear."
And this song applies to all sorts of relationships, when you've got to say goodbye, but just can't bear it yet. . .
So powerful, I love this bittersweet truthful song!
I agree with you one hundred percent!
I agree with you one hundred percent!
Wow... So well said... u hit it on the head... When i first heard this song... i was feeling all of this... in a relationship that was ending.. funny thing, the whole 5 mo. of the relationship, i was 'waiting for the end', knowing it was coming although i was sooo in love... all along i was holding on to what i didn't have...however... this song helped me get through it... damn, the whole cd got me through it... listed to it 3=4 times a day.... ty for this interpretation....
Wow... So well said... u hit it on the head... When i first heard this song... i was feeling all of this... in a relationship that was ending.. funny thing, the whole 5 mo. of the relationship, i was 'waiting for the end', knowing it was coming although i was sooo in love... all along i was holding on to what i didn't have...however... this song helped me get through it... damn, the whole cd got me through it... listed to it 3=4 times a day.... ty for this interpretation....
i think i might be going through this, after being together for more than year it feels as if im the one who puts her first before myself and i just try to pretend its not that way.. its hard.. because she means the world to me, but i sadly dont feel that from her...
i think i might be going through this, after being together for more than year it feels as if im the one who puts her first before myself and i just try to pretend its not that way.. its hard.. because she means the world to me, but i sadly dont feel that from her...
This song fits those who have taken their lives or those who are struggling with depression.
"But you listen to the tone And the violent rhythm And though the words sound steady Something empty's within 'em"
Many people who struggle with depression put on a brave face, but they feel empty inside with a battle that rages within - one that no one can see.
"We say Yeah! With fists flying up in the air Like we're holding onto something That's invisible there, 'Cause we're living at the mercy of The pain and the fear"
Fighting depression is hard and scary and they are holding on to anything they can - even that which no one else can see.
"Waiting for the end to come Wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned It's out of my control
Flying at the speed of light Thoughts we're spinning in my head So many things were left unsaid It's hard to let you go"
These verses make me think of someone with depression who has given up the fight. They don't have the strength to fight on.
"(Oh) I know what it takes to move on, I know how it feels to lie, All I wanna do Is trade this life for something new Holding on to what I haven't got
Sitting in an empty room Trying to forget the past This was never meant to last, I wish it wasn't so"
Those with depression lie often about how they are doing. They are trying to hold on but feel like they don't have anything to hold on to, or they don't have anything to hold on to, but they are trying to hold on.
"Yeah, yeah What was left when that fire was gone? I thought it felt right but that right was wrong All caught up in the eye of the storm And trying to figure out what it's like moving on And I don't even know what kind of things I've said My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin? The hardest part of ending is starting again!"
With depression, the fire is gone and you feel like you are in the eye of the storm. Depression is a liar though. Things can get better, but you do have to start again.
@Cat1216 that is what this song means to me every day I get up in the morning and but on a smile while inside I think to myself what is the point.
@Cat1216 that is what this song means to me every day I get up in the morning and but on a smile while inside I think to myself what is the point.
I know how it feels to lie because I do it every day.
I know how it feels to lie because I do it every day.
all I want to do is trade this life for something new meaning I want trade this life for a life where I don't feel like this anymore
all I want to do is trade this life for something new meaning I want trade this life for a life where I don't feel like this anymore
With depression every step you take is hard and you try to forget your past but you can't so you loose the strength to carry on
With depression every step you take is hard and you try to forget your past but you can't so you loose the strength to carry on
i agree with everyones concept on this song. but i think you guys are thinking to small. i read an article about linkin parks new album having references to 2012 and the apocalypic destruction of our planet. "http://www.reviewrinserepeat.com/artist/linkin-park/album/a-thousand-suns/review" thats the article there in the quotes. i think this song is talking about the upcomming doomsday as not the end or the beginning. after this destruction we will be living in pain and fear, pain from the great losses we all will experience and fear from fear of the unknown. no one knows what its like to live without our technologies and gizmos and such. we are too attached. "What was left when that fire was gone I thought it felt right but that right was wrong All caught up in the eye of the storm And trying to figure out what it's like moving on" the word fire can easily stand for the destruction. fire is a destructive force. later they mention picking up the pieces, the remnants of the chaos and destruction. needing to find a way to move on from "the end" which is the hardest part. starting our civilization over again.
i agree with you, but i think the catalyst fits better with your doomsday description. imo this song is about an inner struggle, like when they say "We say yeah with fists flying up in the air", i think "air" is the fight in his mind, "What was left when that fire was gone,", its like a fight between good and evil, or between two universal forces, I felt that while viewing the video, you know the blue and red, or maybe its the other way around "I thought it felt right but that right was wrong"... When the "fight" ends,("It's...
i agree with you, but i think the catalyst fits better with your doomsday description. imo this song is about an inner struggle, like when they say "We say yeah with fists flying up in the air", i think "air" is the fight in his mind, "What was left when that fire was gone,", its like a fight between good and evil, or between two universal forces, I felt that while viewing the video, you know the blue and red, or maybe its the other way around "I thought it felt right but that right was wrong"... When the "fight" ends,("It's hard to let you go") he was holding to something "i haven't got", he is "picking up the pieces, now where to begin ,The hardest part of ending is starting again..." moving on ...waiting for the end to come, because "this" was never meant to last".its the end of a cycle, the end is the beggining. The "fire" here is good, its like in the "resistance" from muse "let our hearts ignite"-"it could be wrong, it could be wrong...but i should had been right"... "must erase it fast"- "Until we dead it, forget it let it all disappear". we are the resistance lol. does this make any sense to you?lol
I think the concept of "knowing what it takes to move on" indicates the processs of ascension into the next dimension. apperently the 3rd Dimension is only a stepping stone to the next dimnesion where we belong.
I think the concept of "knowing what it takes to move on" indicates the processs of ascension into the next dimension. apperently the 3rd Dimension is only a stepping stone to the next dimnesion where we belong.
it also could be lyrical Genious like many artists, and they could be meaning to trigger the emotions of relationship endings and other interpretations. ive found this with a few of their songs, atmopshere is also a great candidate for implaying different meanings within one song.
it also could be lyrical Genious like many artists, and they could be meaning to trigger the emotions of relationship endings and other interpretations. ive found this with a few of their songs, atmopshere is also a great candidate for implaying different meanings within one song.
I do in fact agree with all the people that think this song is about love. This song can easily trigger emotions in people (including myself) that have had a difficult love/breakup/unsaid things/friendship/loss which is why I think it is so powerful. This song is beautifully written and of course reading the lyrics does not justify how incredible it sounds when cried out verbally. I think anyone who hears this song and is emotionally touched reverts to one specific moment in time, or to one specific person they failed to keep in their lives whether by their decision or someone else's. This song just brings it out of you! However I think this song truly means that we all hang on to someone we don't mean to, or sometimes even want to hang on to...anymore. But there is nothing we can do about it no matter what we do. They're etched, carved, burned, buried, memorized, their scent sticks to us like glue. And just to keep going with this, my favorite part of the song is "sitting in an empty room trying to forget the past". I get a sense of a double meaning in perhaps his empty room is his mind and not actually a tangible room and of course, "trying to forget the past" is another way of saying "trying to forget the memories". Anyway, as they say, Love is a Mother Fucker. I think this all made sense? I don't know.
so true.
so true.
I think this song is about denial. Perhaps over a broken relationship, or a bad grade, or even a death. We (As humans) have a habit of 'holding on to what we haven't got'. This song is about moving on, accepting the truth, and living the rest of your life. But this is hard, as M. Shinoda said, 'the hardest part of ending is starting again.' this is true, and even so, we need to move on, otherwise we may never be the same
I agree with the soldier before he leaves for war thing. But also with the soldier returning from war thing. Or it could be both.
I can see how it could be about the end of a relationship, too, I'm just not sure that goes with the themes in the rest of the album.
I LOVE this new album, and I'm pretty sure this is my favorite song on there. It might be a perfectly produced song. It flows so nice, it rolls, and I love the way it wraps you up and brings you with it.
Guy You are all wrong no offence, I know for a fact this song is about victims of cancer because of what the lyric says especially in the lines "Waiting for the end to come Wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned" and also in the line "Because we're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear Until we dead it, forget it let it all disappear"....and also if you here it on the radio you can hear cancer victims in the background talking about what its like for them...if you think im wrong fine, but i can assure you that this is what the song is about....
I think this part of the music you said is even better because it can be said either by the cancer victim or by a family member or close friend:
I think this part of the music you said is even better because it can be said either by the cancer victim or by a family member or close friend:
Waiting for the end to come wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned It's out of my control Flying at the speed of light Thoughts were spinning in my head So many things were left unsaid It's hard to let you go
Waiting for the end to come wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned It's out of my control Flying at the speed of light Thoughts were spinning in my head So many things were left unsaid It's hard to let you go
If it's a family member saying, he is thinking about who he did not enjoyed life with that other person and...
If it's a family member saying, he is thinking about who he did not enjoyed life with that other person and will have to live the rest of his life without the person, that passed away rapidly, "at speed of light", and he left things unsaid with he/she and it's hard to him to let it go, cause was a very important person for him. And it was not his fault, was out of his control and he can't do anything
Other point of view i saw was that the speaker was a young that died in a burning and went to a place in limbo or a different heaven that isn't from his religion. He is unhappy or nonconformist with the situation, cause he died still young and had fought with someone in earth, like parents or partner. He is confused, regreting either about that person, about being wrong in religion and god with "holding onto something that's invisible there" and scared with the unknown.
"All I wanna do is trade this life for something new Holding on to what I haven't got"
He is noncomformist that his life is over and he will not see that person anymore, and want to go back to what he haven't got, what he haven't done that he should have done.
Sorry if i had done many mistakes in english, i'm brazilian :D
What I could get from this song was maybe someone wanting to love another person who is just getting over a bad break up. Like... 'Waiting for the end to come'
is the person who wants to go out with the person getting over a bad break up, waiting for the other person to get over it.
'Wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned It's out of my control Flying at the speed of light Thoughts were spinning in my head So many things were left unsaid It's hard to let you go'
Is the person still trying to get over everything, but still can't.
'I know what it takes to move on I know how it feels to lie All I want to do Is trade this life for something new Holding on to what I haven't got'
They are telling the person they know how hard it is to try and get over something like that, and that they know how it feels when you have to lie when you say, 'Yeah, I'm OK.' And they are holding on to what they haven't got when they are trying to love someone who still loves someone else.
Gotta agree with Samuentaga. This is about letting go of a relationship that never came to fruition. It's about the pain that accompanies the end of a love that never materialized on the part of the other party. At least with death there is finality and one is forced to move on, but with unrequited love there is the hope that must first die before one can let go enough to begin a new life alone. "We're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear" is a GREAT line. It's scary to have to relinquish a dream when you don't know what the future will hold without that person you love. I really love this song and not just because it has personal meaning to me; there's the guitar part 2/3 of the way through (either bass or electic...I am musically inept) that makes me want to fly each and every time it kicks in.
Well apparently this is the end for you. So you might be waiting for a long time. Longer than me because I'm done waiting. That picture swap didn't last too long. So you lose . HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Sweet relief. In yo face. In yo face. Nothing else to say to you b-babe but yoru clueless. And I win because I was right
Well apparently this is the end for you. So you might be waiting for a long time. Longer than me because I'm done waiting. That picture swap didn't last too long. So you lose . HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Sweet relief. In yo face. In yo face. Nothing else to say to you b-babe but yoru clueless. And I win because I was right
You my friend must feel like a NUMBER ONE Jack ASS. Don't you know that about him, he likes when women are bitchy to him, hello Mcfly? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.I'M OUT OF HERE JUST THOUGHT I'D LEAVE THAT BITTER TASTE IN YORU MOUTH. HOW DOES IT FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL?
You my friend must feel like a NUMBER ONE Jack ASS. Don't you know that about him, he likes when women are bitchy to him, hello Mcfly? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.I'M OUT OF HERE JUST THOUGHT I'D LEAVE THAT BITTER TASTE IN YORU MOUTH. HOW DOES IT FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL?
I wouldn't hold yoru bearth because you'll be holding it forever. Cha ching batta bing schawing. I don't even care if you respond or what you have to say because I wa right and you were and are wrong. He'll never be with the person he really loves because he's a coward. PEACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I wouldn't hold yoru bearth because you'll be holding it forever. Cha ching batta bing schawing. I don't even care if you respond or what you have to say because I wa right and you were and are wrong. He'll never be with the person he really loves because he's a coward. PEACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Absolutely brilliant song from the first lyric to the last.
The best thing about it is that it can apply to so many situations. It expresses the feelings and emotions behind the end of one phase in life and the inevitable, impending beginning of another.
You get to the end and realize it was never meant to last forever and it's time to let go because what used to be there is gone now ("Holding onto what I haven't got"). Whether you're ready or not, it's time to move on.
"Flying at the speed of light Thoughts we're spinning in my head So many things were left unsaid It's hard to let you go"
Hard to pick only one part of the song, but these words summarize the entire song perfectly. Think about how fast important life events seem to come and go, how difficult it can be to grasp what's happening, to voice your emotions, and ultimately to let go and move forward.