| Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is obviously about waiting for your partner through distance and overcoming all the obstacles that come with true love. I don't believe this song is religious or about religion. There are some religious references in other Mumford & Sons songs, but I don't see any that stand out here. They're not a flat-out "religious" band. Frontman, Marcus Mumford describes the lyrics for Sigh No More as "a deliberately spiritual thing but deliberately not a religious thing. I think faith is something beautiful, and something real, and something universal, or it can be... We all have our separate views on religion, but I think faith is something to be celebrated. I have my own personal views, they're still real to me, and I want to write about them." Anyway, more specifically, this song is about Marcus Mumford's wife, actress Carey Mulligan and waiting for her. The two were childhood pen pals and it was only after they both found success in their respective fields that they got in touch with each other again as adults. Marcus and Carey began sending each other letters through their churches when they were kids. After becoming friends again things got more serious in early 2011 and they two became romantically involved and married after a nine-month engagement. Through the years of having fallen out of touch, Marcus kept his hope up that they would meet again. Even through being distanced during their engagement/relationship and having conflicting schedule (Marcus having a busy recording/tour schedule and Carey having a busy filming schedule), they waited for one another and never gave up on the love they have for one another. |
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