Waiting For Tonight Lyrics

Lyric discussion by anyag 

Cover art for Waiting For Tonight lyrics by Tom Petty

Agreed!! One of my favorites of his that never really took off.

The meaning seems obvious at first, a guy who's lonely and a little scared to jump into things, but now it's all finally about to go somewhere--maybe even a proposal.

Or, you could interpret it as a couple who has had a fight and a resulting long period of hiatus, and he's about to go apologize and let it go.

This one is a little out there, but something ominous about the women in the background saying "goodnight love" made me wonder at one point if it's a guy who's already married but unhappy and feels trapped, and he's actually singing about a lover with whom he's about to run off.