This is one of those strange songs where the music and the lyrics don't seem to mesh, and in your confusion you wonder if that apparent inconsistency is supposed to shed light on the song's meaning. The narrator alternates expressions of discontent and impatience with an "well shucks, guess I'll just have to wait this thing out" kind of acceptance of her condition. If this juxtaposition of "I want change" with "I'm good for now" wasn't confusing enough, these feelings are layered through plentiful Christian references and the narrator seeming to cast herself as a Penelope character. All that mishmashing isn't reflected in the music, though, which is peaceful, predictable, and utterly consonant. Maybe it's just about sucking up and persisting through a less-than-ideal, but not horrible situation.
This is one of those strange songs where the music and the lyrics don't seem to mesh, and in your confusion you wonder if that apparent inconsistency is supposed to shed light on the song's meaning. The narrator alternates expressions of discontent and impatience with an "well shucks, guess I'll just have to wait this thing out" kind of acceptance of her condition. If this juxtaposition of "I want change" with "I'm good for now" wasn't confusing enough, these feelings are layered through plentiful Christian references and the narrator seeming to cast herself as a Penelope character. All that mishmashing isn't reflected in the music, though, which is peaceful, predictable, and utterly consonant. Maybe it's just about sucking up and persisting through a less-than-ideal, but not horrible situation.