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Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)

Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Singles
Released: 2014

Seasons (Waiting On You) Lyrics

Seasons change, and I tried hard just to soften you
The seasons change, but I've grown tired of tryin' to change for you
Because I've been waiting on you
I've been waiting on you
Because I've been waiting on you
I've been waiting on you

As it breaks, the summer awaits
But the winter washed whats left of the taste
As it breaks, the summer awaits
But the winter craved whats lost
Crave whats all gone away

People change, even though some people never do
You know when people change
They gain a piece but they lose one too
Because I’ve been hanging on you
I’ve been waiting on you
Because I've been waiting on you
I've been hanging on you

As it breaks, the summer awaits
But the winter washed whats left of the taste
As it breaks, the summer awaits
But the winter craved whats lost
Crave whats all
Crave whats all gone away

'Cause I've been waiting on you

Writer/s: William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring, Gerrit Welmers
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Seasons (Waiting On You)

Vocalist Samuel T Herring explained this song's meaning to Uncut magazine: "It's a song about the human experience," he said. "It's about love, letting go, learning from your mistakes and always feeling that pull – yearning for a certain love, as time goes by in seasons change."

Future Islands made their network television debut on March 3, 2014, when they performed this song on The Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman shouted "I'll take all of that you got!" following the band's passionate performance, creating a meme along the way.

"I remember before the show, looking at some of the previous Letterman performances online and how many views they got, and I was like, 'Oh that's cool, 5,000 views or so!'" Herring recalled to Billboard magazine. "None of us own TVs, and it's been forever since we watched a late show. We didn't really expect that it would become something, because nobody thought that performance would get that reaction."

Herring told Billboard magazine the story of the song. "I called the guys the day after we wrote it, probably jammed the tune out in an hour and a half," he recalled. "I went home and took a recording I had made on my computer, wrote the song in 30 minutes by chopping it up and then called the guys and was like, 'This is the best song we've ever written.'"

"Of course, by the time we wrote the rest of the songs (on the album), I was like, 'Maybe it's not the best song we've ever written," Herring added. "I love these other songs too.'"

Time Out magazine chose this as their best song of 2014. They said: "A stunning lovelorn lament, inescapably drenched in experience, 'Seasons' was confirmation that music could still be moving, that bands could still break through after years of toil and that in a tough year, the rock 'n' roll dream wasn't totally dead after all."

The song sums up a tumultuous two-and-a-half year relationship. Herring told NME: "I was trying to get her to change so that she would love me the way I wanted to be loved. And I tried to change too, until I realized that you can't do that. That's just one of those tragedies of love: it's not always going to work out, even if there is something there."

Herring explained the song's meaning. "Seasons was an idea to explain the passage of time in a rocky relationship," he said. "It means as the winter falls apart, by the summer we'll feel love again. Then, as the winter comes, it will get rid of those things we're holding onto."

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Singles
Released: 2014

Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics

Home isn't open
It's like, when you get here
The tracks by the creek bed
The minnow's the body
Crawdads with their heads down low
Back in the Tall Grass
Stinging my cattails oh!
Looking for brother
It feels like winter
But it's the heart of the summer
We can't go swimming
As long as we slumber
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Cuz we're a long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?
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One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone
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And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home
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A long way from home
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How did we get here?
Back to the body
Words jump like salmon

One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone

(Chorus)

In that backwater
Running through the woods
In that red water
In the mirror
Thinking of you

Spend all day just thinking of you
In the mirror thinking of you
Spend my days just thinking of you

(Chorus)

Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home...

Writer/s: William Cashion, Samuel Thompson Herring, John Gerrit Welmers
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Back in the Tall Grass Song Chart

The song finds frontman Samuel T Herring recalling walks home from school. "It's reminiscing on the times I'd lose my brother on the way, and then feeling that same emotion upon losing touch with someone later in life," he explained to Uncut. "And about how those early feelings of childhood may seen foreign to us as adults. Alive with curiosity and possibility, and at the same time experiencing fear in the face of loss and unknowing."