Waiting Songtext
von Ben Levin

She′s off the hook, they took her rook
Her queen is pinned, her pawns are stuck
Easier to play, there are fewer moves to make
No more pieces left to take

Just shake hands and walk away
But she don't have the choice to quit
And she don′t have that final say
To let go of everything
Push off her raft and let her bones sink
It'd be better if she didn't have to think
She is hurting and waiting
And panicking and waiting
And stretching and waiting
And choking and waiting


The nurses talk her ears off and treat her like a baby
When they wipe her, when they wash her
Is she just another lady?
Skin and bones in her eighties
She′s lost the tongue to speak and she′s waiting
She's lost the right to scream and she′s waiting

Forgotten all her dreams and she's waiting

She′s shrinking toward the emptiness we run from all our lives

The black and white we see when we're waiting

That′s not right
That's not right
She's still got love in her life
When she looks in my eyes
I know she′s glad to be alive

Memory is all we′ve got
But she can't remember if I visit or not
And who can hear her? Her voice is shot
I′m moving close but can't read her thoughts

Where will I wanna be when I′m waiting?
Who will I wanna see when I'm waiting?
What will love even mean when I′m waiting?
What will be left of me when I'm waiting?
I don't wanna spend my days disintegrating
Stuff juice in my mouth when I don′t feel like eating


Mind full of ideas I′m not articulating
Being here is degrading and I'm debating
The meaning of life when you can′t wait for death
And you spend your days waiting

That's not right
That′s not right
She's still got love in her life
When she looks in my eyes
I know she′s glad to be alive

Hours, days, and years pass by
It never feels like enough time
Though she's ill and asks to die
Each time I leave I can't say goodbye