More songs by Beth Orton
Description
Vocals, Piano, Producer: Beth Orton
Drums: Chris Vatalaro
Bass: Tom Herbert
Piano: Sam Beste
Electric Guitar: Dave Okumu
Organ, Bass: Shahzad Ismaily
Trumpet: Christos Stylianides
Electric Guitar: Adrian Utley
Organ, Flute: Jesse Chandler
Background Vocals: Teeny Lieberson
Background Vocals: Grey McMurray
Mixing Engineer: Craig Silvey
Mastering Engineer: Steve Fallone
Recording Engineer: Cameron Craig
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Composer Lyricist: Beth Orton
Lyrics and translation
Original
I've been waiting for the hurting to stop.
I've been waiting for the punch line to drop.
Anytime I hear the music we played,
I dissolve into a puddle of rain.
I've been playing down the way that I feel.
I've been hoping that I don't make it real.
I've been waiting at the edge of a dream to jump and fly but found my beautiful wings.
Been waiting for the right time to come, to put the best dress back on, to catch a favorite song, and to find my way home to your love.
I've been hovering around like a ghost in all the places gone away, left unspoken.
I've been playing down in penny arcades, celebrating what I beg, when
I've paid.
I've been following the river back home.
I keep finding out I'm excellent prone.
I was gonna write a gratitude list, just gotta work out my resentment to it.
And I'm thinking, 'cause it gets to me, perhaps there's nowhere else that I will ever be.
I'm wondering, yeah, it seems to me that there's nowhere else that I would rather be.
And if I could be anywhere,
I'm right here by your side.
If there was another now, another place and time.
If I could be anywhere, I'm right here by your side.
I keep waiting for the hurting to stop.
I've been waiting for the punch line to drop.
I've been waiting 'til forever had come.
Before I knew it, it had already come and gone.
I've been waiting on a beautiful dream, forgiving everyone that I've ever been.
And I've been playing down in penny arcades.
I went and found a way to rise up instead.
Waiting for the right time to come.
I put the best dress back on.
I caught a favorite song and I danced my way home to your love.
Oh, I found my way home to your love.
And if I could be anywhere, I'm right here by your side.
If there was another now, another place and time.
If I could be anywhere, I'm right here by your side.
I've been waiting.
I've been waiting. I've been waiting.
I've been waiting.