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Hurry Up And Wait Lyrics
we wait to wake to get a ride in the train
buy a ticket they can check we can claim
so we don't spend what's our own for a
seat a place to stop a green light a red
cross they run around naked doing old
things like the ones before
wait for a break so you can take a little
something that'll make your next break
come along a little quicker than the one
before wait for an answer spy a sweet
dancer as she walks from the door of the
hall wish you waited for your wedding
vows so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for
we wait to get warm the car starts from
cold stall to make a first move magazines
made the rules to make us lose wait for
your dream man the house you could both
plan the car in the sales ad the wet dream
with the man you wished that you had
a watched pot never boils sugars seconds
to dissolve see your appetite lost foods
relevance is lost inside
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for
so join the queue me and you
wait in line it takes our
time to be satisfied
buy a ticket they can check we can claim
so we don't spend what's our own for a
seat a place to stop a green light a red
cross they run around naked doing old
things like the ones before
wait for a break so you can take a little
something that'll make your next break
come along a little quicker than the one
before wait for an answer spy a sweet
dancer as she walks from the door of the
hall wish you waited for your wedding
vows so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for
we wait to get warm the car starts from
cold stall to make a first move magazines
made the rules to make us lose wait for
your dream man the house you could both
plan the car in the sales ad the wet dream
with the man you wished that you had
a watched pot never boils sugars seconds
to dissolve see your appetite lost foods
relevance is lost inside
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for
so join the queue me and you
wait in line it takes our
time to be satisfied
Song Info
Submitted by
nelly On Mar 04, 2002
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I love the Stereophonics. I don't think I've a heard a song by them yet that doesn't making you think, whether it's about yourself or the world around you.
P.S. Yeah, really, what IS worth waiting for?
Ahhh how can no one of commented on this song its sooooo pretty!! hehe xxxxxx
oh this song is so lovely. I actually start to tear up a little when i hear it.
i love this song. it makes me teary eyed too. Kelly's voice on this track is amazing.
in this song, i just imagine people living life, day to day, sad and depressed, searching for happiness. i think this song is about all the things you do in life to keep yourself happy and live up to the standard of what society says happiness is, in particular relationships and marriages. i think he's saying that people rush into these marriages/relationships thinking it will be the fairytale and the answer to their lives, thinking it will finally make them happy, then spend most of their time, waiting. for what, who even knows in the end? who even knows why they did this or made this jump or this decision? maybe they thought it would make them happy and solve all their problems. so people "hurry up and wait". they rush into things, then sit around waiting for things like happiness to come to them. by the end of the song, i think he's saying to go slow because it takes time to figure out what exactly will make you happy. you have to work at it and that true happiness is worth waiting for.
there's a part left out of the lyrics up there towards that end tho that goes..
Wait to get there, and when we get there, We wait around for anyone to tell us what we even got there for
wait a minute. i take my explanation back. i was just listening to this song again and i realized that none of these things are really connected. he's running off a list of all the random things people wait for. how did i miss that? i think it's because when i listen to the cd, all those "waits" at the beginning of sentences are not in there. he took them out. but when i read them here, it makes more sense. oh well lol i suppose it could be interpreted a number of ways. awesome song any way you look at it :)
Beautiful song, and I agree with your first explanation pippilotta ;)
But then I also think this song is meant to inspire people to enjoy the little things in life, and not just wait untill you get satisfied by great events.. but get satisfaction in life along the way.. which is a great thing.
This song just weeps 80s / 90s pop with a kick of blues (not sure if there is intentional irony)... and Kelly's voice is absolutely incredible on this recording.
Possibly my all-time favorite StP song.
The melody and delivery are so simple, yet so memorable. Bittersweet even.
Your analyses seem pretty much spot-on -- you can anticipate and live with all of your human expectations, but once they arrive, were they worth it? Living for the moment, appreciation for what you possess. The protagonists in the song "run through" life's events without really noticing anything in particular. Hurry up and wait is a good oxymoron -- rush to nowhere.
Forgot to add:
Even the delivery of this song matches the "theme"... almost a lazy, back-porch vibe.
well, the title of the song suggests that its like, a double negative thing, hurry up and wait, because people dread waiting, yet it seems hes rushing to wait, i think its about rushing into things and when u get there u realise it wasnt worth waiting for (hence so hurry up and wait, but whats worth waiting for?)
I agree with most of your meanings. "Hurry up and Wait" - is an showbiz industry term (Film or music). Where most of time your waiting around for the shot to be lit, or the gig to start, and then the next sec your rushing around to gets thing done