All This Time Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Polka.dot 

Cover art for All This Time lyrics by OneRepublic

beautiful song - feel it is fairly self explanatory. The relationship has had to endure time and distance separation but the singer is finally heading back - and this song shows his devotion.

At first I thought the line 'Got all these words, can't waste them on another' meant that they didn't need to speak, as in they didn't need to waste words on each other to convey emotion, but looking at the later lyrics and listening to the way he sings the line I think it's more about reaffirming that there isn't anyone else.

The line 'You say I'm lucky to love something that loves me' makes me think of the first album track 'Made for you' which to me conveys how it feels to have thousands of fans of your music - in this song the singer recognises that he should perhaps feel lucky to have all that love from an audience, but on tour ('wherever I roam' 'don't know the city') that love doesn't comfort him - he is only thinking of getting back to the person he is singing the song to.

Yesss...I agree! But instead of the audience, the person he is singing to, is the person he loves. Maybe they truly love eachother which is why they wait and "striaght in a straight line run back to you."