This song is generally a "right here waiting for you" number. There's a lot of abstract imagery I'd like to hear other people's takes on. Let's just get the literary reference nailed down, though:
"I will wait like Rosencrantz / for Godot"
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is another absurdist play written in pretty direct response to it. Spoilers: Godot never appears. R&G die. Both plays are about our inability to comprehend or foresee our lives, and both involve a lot of waiting.
So one cool perspective on this song is that the singer knows this is utterly pointless. She's not coming back. She left, and generally in real life that is a one-way thing. If you sit and pine forever, that is your business. The singer is pining anyway.
Is he like the men waiting for Godot who seem to have some choice in the matter but keep stubbornly waiting anyway, or like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who would like to get out of their situation but have been railroaded by fate? Does he have a choice about pining?
This song is generally a "right here waiting for you" number. There's a lot of abstract imagery I'd like to hear other people's takes on. Let's just get the literary reference nailed down, though:
"I will wait like Rosencrantz / for Godot"
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is another absurdist play written in pretty direct response to it. Spoilers: Godot never appears. R&G die. Both plays are about our inability to comprehend or foresee our lives, and both involve a lot of waiting.
So one cool perspective on this song is that the singer knows this is utterly pointless. She's not coming back. She left, and generally in real life that is a one-way thing. If you sit and pine forever, that is your business. The singer is pining anyway.
Is he like the men waiting for Godot who seem to have some choice in the matter but keep stubbornly waiting anyway, or like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who would like to get out of their situation but have been railroaded by fate? Does he have a choice about pining?