What do you think While You're Waiting means?

Alkaline Trio: While You're Waiting Meaning

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While You're Waiting Lyrics

There's a hope in my head
That's been cut and bleed
Dry as your bloodshot eyes
And there's smoke in the air
And it's soon to clear
Revealing our demise
There are some who say
That it's a-okay
If it makes you feel all right
It's just way...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jul 20th 2011 !⃝

    Now this the classic view of the song but it means something different to me... Definitely feel like it is kinda about unconditional love

  2. anonymous
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     Dec 7th 2007 !⃝

    While I was in High School my best friend at the time wrote parts of the lyrics to this song for me-she said that it was right for our situation. This song is definitely about suicide, but more than that. Waiting. Maybe not necessarily someone who is super hell bent on succeeding in this task, but someone who just needs to wait it out- as hard and scary that can be. He is singing about how he understands the pain that this person is going through- but that he is there to go through that pain right along side that person.

  3. brielle
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     Mar 17th 2007 !⃝

    This song most definitely is about talking sumone out of committing suicide.
    some examples in the lyrics are :: "...but I'll make you a deal if you make it out alive..."
    "contemplating hanging from your ceiling" (well that was pretty much flat out on the whole suicide thing!)
    "now you're worse than sad.." the depression driving the person to commit suicide (duh!)

    xoxoxoxo

  4. Eleven11
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     Feb 14th 2007 !⃝

    Well in my opinion... This song is about Suicide... knowing someone who wants to commit suicide... & trying to talk them out of it... esp the last few lines...
    idk... maybe its because my best friend committed suicide... I can't help but listen to this song and think that that's what it is about... and I wish I knew it before she died cause I would have sung it to her everyday...
    "I already miss you all the time" <3


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