The short version: this song is mostly about the frustration of being stuck in one place in life, having plenty of time to ponder where you could have been going instead and watching everyone else pass you by.
Most will likely recognize this song as the them song for "Orange is the New Black", a show which has the main character serving time in prison. Naturally, the lyrics fit pretty perfectly for this kind of setting, but of course it could be thought of in more broad terms of being stuck in one place in life.
"Think of all the roads / Think of all their crossings / Taking steps is easy / Standing still is hard..." When you're stuck in life, "you've got time" to think about where you could be going in life's many paths, and how difficult it is to just be sitting still.
"And everyone is waiting, waiting on you..." I kind of think of this as tongue-in-cheek, in a way. Take the main character from the TV show, for example. She has friends and her fiancee on the outside, who are "waiting" on her, but they can't realistically just sit around waiting on her. No spoilers, but generally speaking in that kind of situation, they still have their own lives to live and things to do. In real life, when you're stuck in the same place, other people are going to move on.
"Remember all their faces / Remember all their voices / Everything is different / The second time around." People change over time. You remember people as they were, but if they're moving on without you, it's not going to be quite the same.
The short version: this song is mostly about the frustration of being stuck in one place in life, having plenty of time to ponder where you could have been going instead and watching everyone else pass you by.
Most will likely recognize this song as the them song for "Orange is the New Black", a show which has the main character serving time in prison. Naturally, the lyrics fit pretty perfectly for this kind of setting, but of course it could be thought of in more broad terms of being stuck in one place in life.
"Think of all the roads / Think of all their crossings / Taking steps is easy / Standing still is hard..." When you're stuck in life, "you've got time" to think about where you could be going in life's many paths, and how difficult it is to just be sitting still.
"And everyone is waiting, waiting on you..." I kind of think of this as tongue-in-cheek, in a way. Take the main character from the TV show, for example. She has friends and her fiancee on the outside, who are "waiting" on her, but they can't realistically just sit around waiting on her. No spoilers, but generally speaking in that kind of situation, they still have their own lives to live and things to do. In real life, when you're stuck in the same place, other people are going to move on.
"Remember all their faces / Remember all their voices / Everything is different / The second time around." People change over time. You remember people as they were, but if they're moving on without you, it's not going to be quite the same.