MEANING:
This song is about GOOD & EVIL and how it relates to a two person love relationship.
Person A) Winter/Evil/Pain/Darkness
Person B) Summer/Loving/Sun
The best example for this song is on youtube from the David Letterman show, Seasons Change". SEARCH: "David Letterman - Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting On You)"
START:
Winter loves Summer & Summer accepts Winter as "Seasons Change" is sung with a positive tone and background chord progressions. He mostly plays the role of Winter, and goes back and forth from Summer is is positive towards winter, and Winter loves summer, but as Winter gets closer, summer is threatened by Winter and resists or retreats from Winter.
BODY:
The true meaning and passion of the song is realized, as the singer transforms or is possessed by the Winter/Evil. This happens in a very powerful and exaggerated manner at 2:09min, & at 3:09min when he sings in a very deep altered voice of Evil/Winter. A very altered Devil / Satan voice, starts "because I've been hanging on you", he wasn't actually waiting on you, you see he was "weighing" and "hanging on you".
(Good/Love/Happiness) & Winter (Evil/Sorrow/Sin/Darkness) moves with the pattern of the song. Count it in 4/4 to make it easier, it is in classic AABA format, which is Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus. The bridge is where the end of the battle is and the last cHORUS is the victory lap if you will, the celebration of destroying summer, and now craving another Summer to destroy.
This gets exaggerated even more at 3:09 when the lyrics are actually changed from "But the winter will crave what has gone"
"Will crave what has all"
slurred into; "We crave what's dark" which actually means what the lyrics actually say which is "will crave what's gone". This is another show of evil winning, because initially evil was waiting for you, which you associate with summer because of the song pattern, but it is actually waiting for winter, and now (in the end of the song) it craves making summer gone. In the song the listener is made to replace the positive feeling towards the Sun/Summer to the positive feeling of embracing the destruction of Sun/Summer and to crave what's dark/Winter.
Conclusion - Resolution
Finally winter overtakes summer, and in the end Winter actually loves the "taste" and feeling of destroying Summer, Not loving Summer & loving Summer is no longer important IT DOES NOT CRAVE WHAT'S GONE "as it craves what's dark" 3:09. IT CRAVES MAKING SUMMER GONE "DARK". because seasons change. The final line of the song is a call to the next victim. "I've been waiting on you", is the call for another person, another Summer to destroy. because "Seasons Change". There is always another Summer.
This song is great, and it is sung & acted out beautifully by the lead singer. He has the singing and acting talent of a true Opera singer with the edge of death and metal.
Anyone that has experienced love at any time in their lives where things started to change or go south in the other persons mindit was not reciprocated will be. Most people always have sin or evil somewhere in the back of their mind, often times in unhealthy relationships, but also in sex, food, drugs, etc..
Like many/most great songs, one must listen to the way the words are sung in order to obtain their meaning. It is not so much that the song is about celebrating evil, rather it is the clear illustration that if love is not returned then the love of destroying the opposing (summer) is what replaces the initial love of summer.
I wasn't certain at first if I'd agreed with your assessment. It seemed like a very long leap. After having read your entire explanation it's obvious that you've put a lot of thought into your version of these events. I like that. I respect that. I believe firmly that one song or one poem or even one short story could have several meanings. One for the author; and one for each of the readers. Your version wasn't the closest to mine, but yours will be the only 'songmeaning' comment I respond to. Also, you've dramatically changed how I feel about...
I wasn't certain at first if I'd agreed with your assessment. It seemed like a very long leap. After having read your entire explanation it's obvious that you've put a lot of thought into your version of these events. I like that. I respect that. I believe firmly that one song or one poem or even one short story could have several meanings. One for the author; and one for each of the readers. Your version wasn't the closest to mine, but yours will be the only 'songmeaning' comment I respond to. Also, you've dramatically changed how I feel about the song. I like the idea of myself portraying the Winter waiting on the next summer to devour. Thanks for that.
MEANING: This song is about GOOD & EVIL and how it relates to a two person love relationship.
Person A) Winter/Evil/Pain/Darkness Person B) Summer/Loving/Sun
The best example for this song is on youtube from the David Letterman show, Seasons Change". SEARCH: "David Letterman - Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting On You)"
START: Winter loves Summer & Summer accepts Winter as "Seasons Change" is sung with a positive tone and background chord progressions. He mostly plays the role of Winter, and goes back and forth from Summer is is positive towards winter, and Winter loves summer, but as Winter gets closer, summer is threatened by Winter and resists or retreats from Winter.
BODY: The true meaning and passion of the song is realized, as the singer transforms or is possessed by the Winter/Evil. This happens in a very powerful and exaggerated manner at 2:09min, & at 3:09min when he sings in a very deep altered voice of Evil/Winter. A very altered Devil / Satan voice, starts "because I've been hanging on you", he wasn't actually waiting on you, you see he was "weighing" and "hanging on you".
(Good/Love/Happiness) & Winter (Evil/Sorrow/Sin/Darkness) moves with the pattern of the song. Count it in 4/4 to make it easier, it is in classic AABA format, which is Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus. The bridge is where the end of the battle is and the last cHORUS is the victory lap if you will, the celebration of destroying summer, and now craving another Summer to destroy.
This gets exaggerated even more at 3:09 when the lyrics are actually changed from "But the winter will crave what has gone" "Will crave what has all"
slurred into; "We crave what's dark" which actually means what the lyrics actually say which is "will crave what's gone". This is another show of evil winning, because initially evil was waiting for you, which you associate with summer because of the song pattern, but it is actually waiting for winter, and now (in the end of the song) it craves making summer gone. In the song the listener is made to replace the positive feeling towards the Sun/Summer to the positive feeling of embracing the destruction of Sun/Summer and to crave what's dark/Winter.
Conclusion - Resolution Finally winter overtakes summer, and in the end Winter actually loves the "taste" and feeling of destroying Summer, Not loving Summer & loving Summer is no longer important IT DOES NOT CRAVE WHAT'S GONE "as it craves what's dark" 3:09. IT CRAVES MAKING SUMMER GONE "DARK". because seasons change. The final line of the song is a call to the next victim. "I've been waiting on you", is the call for another person, another Summer to destroy. because "Seasons Change". There is always another Summer.
This song is great, and it is sung & acted out beautifully by the lead singer. He has the singing and acting talent of a true Opera singer with the edge of death and metal.
Anyone that has experienced love at any time in their lives where things started to change or go south in the other persons mindit was not reciprocated will be. Most people always have sin or evil somewhere in the back of their mind, often times in unhealthy relationships, but also in sex, food, drugs, etc..
Like many/most great songs, one must listen to the way the words are sung in order to obtain their meaning. It is not so much that the song is about celebrating evil, rather it is the clear illustration that if love is not returned then the love of destroying the opposing (summer) is what replaces the initial love of summer.
I wasn't certain at first if I'd agreed with your assessment. It seemed like a very long leap. After having read your entire explanation it's obvious that you've put a lot of thought into your version of these events. I like that. I respect that. I believe firmly that one song or one poem or even one short story could have several meanings. One for the author; and one for each of the readers. Your version wasn't the closest to mine, but yours will be the only 'songmeaning' comment I respond to. Also, you've dramatically changed how I feel about...
I wasn't certain at first if I'd agreed with your assessment. It seemed like a very long leap. After having read your entire explanation it's obvious that you've put a lot of thought into your version of these events. I like that. I respect that. I believe firmly that one song or one poem or even one short story could have several meanings. One for the author; and one for each of the readers. Your version wasn't the closest to mine, but yours will be the only 'songmeaning' comment I respond to. Also, you've dramatically changed how I feel about the song. I like the idea of myself portraying the Winter waiting on the next summer to devour. Thanks for that.