Waiting to Talk Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vickevlar 

Cover art for Waiting to Talk lyrics by Andrew Bird

During all the social interactions between people everyday, no one really gives a shit about what the other person is saying and is just looking for an opportunity to interject their own opinion. People don't talk in order to learn about whoever they're talking to, or to reach some mutual understanding, they just want to go off on their own tangent, like two lines going infinitely in opposite directions, or parallel lines that are similar to each other but will never cross and "agree" at a point.
In the end, we just seem like machines designed to propagate our own opinions (and this is going beyond the song, but our genes as well.)

The subject of this song sees this, and quietly keeps to himself. Other people don't understand this (he seems "kinda creepy") and he is something of a loner ("he's not really linking himself with the rest").

He certainly is so much more intriguing than most other people to me... living in his mind, avoiding the endless loop of blabbering people are locked into... this song is so unbelievably brilliant.

This website is a perfect example of what Andrew's talking about, which means it's time for me to stop writing and go do some more reading :P.