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Waiting Room by Fugazi
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“Waiting Room” is critical of the mindset of waiting for your time, waiting for the next thing, waiting your turn, and not shaking or taking things for yourself due to calm, apparent order and progress around you.
from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
This song is about getting motivation to...
Waiting Room Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I am a patient boy
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait
My time is like water down a drain
Everybody's moving, everybody's moving
Everybody's moving, moving, moving, moving
Please don't leave me to remain
In the waiting room
[Chorus]
I don't want the news (I cannot use it)
I don't want the news (I won't live by it)
Sitting outside of town
Everybody's always down (Tell me why?)
Because they can't get up
[Post-Chorus]
(Ahh, come on and get up)
(Come on and get up)
[Verse 2]
But I don't sit idly by (ahh)
I'm planning a big surprise
I'm gonna fight for what I wanna be
And I won't make the same mistakes (Because I know)
Because I know how much time that wastes
(And function), function is the key
To the waiting room
[Chorus]
I don't want the news (I cannot use it)
I don't want the news (I won't live by it)
Sitting outside of town
Everybody's always down (Tell me why?)
Because they can't get up
[Post-Chorus]
(Ahh, come on and get up)
[Bridge]
Up for the waiting room
[Outro]
Sitting in the waiting room (ahh)
Sitting in the waiting room (ahh)
Sitting in the waiting room (ahh)
Sitting in the waiting room (Tell me why?)
Because they can't get up
Waiting Room Q&A
Who wrote Waiting Room's ?
Waiting Room was written by Fugazi.
Who produced Waiting Room's ?
Waiting Room was produced by Fugazi & Ted Niceley.
What did Fugazi say about "Waiting Room"?
At a venue called “AJZ” in Homburg, Germany, Ian MacKaye introduced the band’s performance of the song by saying,
And now a song dedicated to all the people who are in jail… they have to learn about patience… waiting around and waiting around and waiting around and waiting around…
What is the significance of this song to Ian MacKay and Fugazi?
“Waiting Room” became the first Fugazi song after being written by MacKay in the wake of a bad experience with the short lived band Embrace. As he told Loudersound,
So in 1986, after Embrace imploded, I decided that I wanted to play music, without forming a band. It wasn’t disillusionment for me,...