Hurry Up and Wait
Embracing Life's Pause: Decoding Stereophonics' 'Hurry Up and Wait'
Lyrics
We wait to wake to get a ride in the rain
We anticipate waking up to catch a ride in the rain.
Buy a ticket they can check we can claim
We purchase a ticket that can be verified, allowing us to make a claim.
So we don't spend what's our own for a
We refrain from spending what belongs to us for a seat.
Seat a place to stop a green light a red
A place to pause, encountering green lights and red crosses.
Cross they run around naked doing old
People engage in familiar activities, resembling those in the past.
Things like the ones before
Repetition of old behaviors.
Wait for a break so you can take a little
We wait for a pause, enabling us to enjoy a small pleasure.
Something that'll make your next break
Something that enhances the upcoming break.
Come along a little quicker than the one
Anticipation for the next break to arrive sooner than the previous one.
Before wait for an answer spy a sweet
Waiting for a response, observing an appealing dancer.
Dancer as she walks from the door of the
A woman leaving a hall, perhaps a missed opportunity.
Hall wish you waited for your wedding
Regret for not waiting for wedding vows.
Vows so hurry up and wait
The recurring theme: hurry up and wait.
But what's worth waiting for?
Pondering what is truly worth waiting for.
We wait to get warm the car starts from
Waiting to warm up as the car struggles to start in the cold.
Cold stall to make a first move magazines
A reference to the initial moves in a relationship, influenced by magazines.
Made the rules to make us lose wait for
Rules set by external forces making us wait and lose.
Your dream man the house you could both
Waiting for an ideal partner and planning a shared future.
Plan the car in the sales ad the wet dream
A car featured in advertisements, representing an unattainable dream.
With the man you wished that you had
A desired partner in dreams.
a watched pot never boils sugars seconds
Patience is needed; rushing doesn't yield results.
to dissolve see your appetite lost foods
Waiting for things to happen, losing interest when delayed.
relevance is lost inside
The significance of food is lost in waiting.
so hurry up and wait
Reiteration of the theme: hurry up and wait.
but what's worth waiting for?
Questioning the value of what is being waited for.
so join the queue me and you
Encouraging others to join the queue and wait together.
wait in line it takes our
Highlighting the universal experience of waiting in line.
time to be satisfied
Emphasizing the time it takes to achieve satisfaction through waiting.
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