Seasons (Waiting on You)

MEANING: This song is about GOOD & EVIL and how it relates to a two person love relationship.

Person A) Winter/Evil/Pain/Darkness Person B) Summer/Loving/Sun

The best example for this song is on youtube from the David Letterman show, Seasons Change". SEARCH: "David Letterman - Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting On You)"

START: Winter loves Summer & Summer accepts Winter as "Seasons Change" is sung with a positive tone and background chord progressions. He mostly plays the role of Winter, and goes back and forth from Summer is is positive towards winter, and Winter loves summer, but as Winter gets closer, summer is threatened by Winter and resists or retreats from Winter.

BODY: The true meaning and passion of the song is realized, as the singer transforms or is possessed by the Winter/Evil. This happens in a very powerful and exaggerated manner at 2:09min, & at 3:09min when he sings in a very deep altered voice of Evil/Winter. A very altered Devil / Satan voice, starts "because I've been hanging on you", he wasn't actually waiting on you, you see he was "weighing" and "hanging on you".

(Good/Love/Happiness) & Winter (Evil/Sorrow/Sin/Darkness) moves with the pattern of the song. Count it in 4/4 to make it easier, it is in classic AABA format, which is Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus. The bridge is where the end of the battle is and the last cHORUS is the victory lap if you will, the celebration of destroying summer, and now craving another Summer to destroy.

This gets exaggerated even more at 3:09 when the lyrics are actually changed from "But the winter will crave what has gone" "Will crave what has all"

slurred into; "We crave what's dark" which actually means what the lyrics actually say which is "will crave what's gone". This is another show of evil winning, because initially evil was waiting for you, which you associate with summer because of the song pattern, but it is actually waiting for winter, and now (in the end of the song) it craves making summer gone. In the song the listener is made to replace the positive feeling towards the Sun/Summer to the positive feeling of embracing the destruction of Sun/Summer and to crave what's dark/Winter.

Conclusion - Resolution Finally winter overtakes summer, and in the end Winter actually loves the "taste" and feeling of destroying Summer, Not loving Summer & loving Summer is no longer important IT DOES NOT CRAVE WHAT'S GONE "as it craves what's dark" 3:09. IT CRAVES MAKING SUMMER GONE "DARK". because seasons change. The final line of the song is a call to the next victim. "I've been waiting on you", is the call for another person, another Summer to destroy. because "Seasons Change". There is always another Summer.

This song is great, and it is sung & acted out beautifully by the lead singer. He has the singing and acting talent of a true Opera singer with the edge of death and metal.

Anyone that has experienced love at any time in their lives where things started to change or go south in the other persons mindit was not reciprocated will be. Most people always have sin or evil somewhere in the back of their mind, often times in unhealthy relationships, but also in sex, food, drugs, etc..

Like many/most great songs, one must listen to the way the words are sung in order to obtain their meaning. It is not so much that the song is about celebrating evil, rather it is the clear illustration that if love is not returned then the love of destroying the opposing (summer) is what replaces the initial love of summer.

This song is about two people in a long-time romantic relationship which has lost the spark because of the imperfections in the lovers, and what will happen if they break up.

The first part is clear in the first and 2nd stanzas: 1st - I've grown tired trying to soften you / I've grown tired trying to change for you. 2nd - I've been waiting on you / I've been weighing on you

The singer is not placing blame on the other, but simply recognizing the difficulty of the situation and that the flame has died for both.

The chorus supports this further, and uses some very interesting imagery to suggest that as the relationship falls apart ("as it breaks"), they will experience a reminder of the love they once shared ("the summer will wake") but that it may not be enough to rekindle the flame to survive through the hard times if they stay together ("the winter will wash what is left of the taste").

The singer then recognizes that after the relationship ends, there will be a peace ("the summer will warm"), however, there will also be longing to be together again ("the winter will crave what is lost").

The song ends with a plea to the beloved ("I've been waiting on you") to recognize the problem and hopefully solve it.

I believe this is about waiting for someone to come around or change to what you want/expect them to. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they don't change until after you give up waiting for them - and that is what they lose (3rd line, 3rd stanza)

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I interpret this song to be about the frustration the singer feels when he's caught in the slipstream between "Seasons" of his favourite TV programmes. His frustration is further channeled due to the ever changing storylines when a new Seasons commences.

A great song, which perfectly captures the frustration of waiting for a new Season to start and then chiding the producers for the vagaries of that show.

I feel this song is post break up. He is trying to reminder her of what they once had together. She has moved on (people change) but he has not (some never do)

The seasons refer to the longing in his head for the time they were together. Sometimes its easy to move on (like the hope of summer) sometimes he is right back to where it ended (in the cold of winter) but deep inside he remains hopeful (I've been waiting on you)

Awesome song!

He feels he will never want to change (feels like winter) but she wants him to change and he has not been able to change her to not want him to change

It’s definitely about moving on from a relationship that he has eventually given up on, the other person wouldn’t change (maybe they were reluctant to live together or get married) and to find what he wanted he had to move on to find what he wanted. Because one relationship follows another, just like seasons do. Maybe they’ve ran into each other again and he’s trying to explain to them that it wasn’t what he wanted, but it was what he had to do in the end.

I don't have an alternate suggestion, but I really doubt the word is "war", in "As it breaks, the Summer war".

Love themed song. About giving up finally after long time of waiting. Also might be about loosing a friend, a close one.