Results for “marital patience”

Songs

Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience

Parquet Courts

This is really two linked songs stitched into one track: an anxious, stuttering account of near-violence and existential…

urban anxiety exhaustion of patience alienation and numbness

Waitin' On a Woman

Brad Paisley

A chance bench conversation at a shopping mall becomes a decades-spanning meditation on marriage, patience, and mortality. The…

marital patience intergenerational wisdom mortality and devotion

It's Going to Take Some Time

Carole King

A quiet post-breakup meditation in which the narrator refuses easy resolution, choosing patience over self-pity. Carole King…

heartbreak recovery self-forgiveness patience

Nice & Slow

Usher

A late-90s R&B seduction track built almost entirely around anticipation: a phone call, a drive across town, and a promise that…

seduction and anticipation control and patience masculine bravado

Run to Me

Dionne Warwick

A plainspoken offer of shelter to someone recovering from heartbreak, built almost entirely around a single repeated invitation.…

emotional availability rebound love self-doubt in courtship

Easy, Easy, Got to Take It Easy

Teddy Pendergrass

A slow-burning seduction ballad built almost entirely around a single piece of self-advice: don't rush. Teddy Pendergrass…

patience as desire vulnerability in intimacy self-restraint

To Be Your Man

Don Williams

A plainspoken devotional ballad in which a man lays out, almost like a vow, what he's willing to offer a partner in exchange for…

marital devotion imperfection and forgiveness aging together

Rock Me Baby

Big Mama Thornton

A direct, unhurried blues plea for physical and emotional satisfaction, built from the double meaning of "rock" as both comfort…

sexual desire bodily surrender patience and pacing

Take Our Time

TLC

This CrazySexyCool deep cut is a slow-burn seduction song built almost entirely on repetition, asking a partner to slow down and…

patience in intimacy trust between lovers sensuality

Waitin' On You

En Vogue

A woman sits alone past the hour her partner should have returned, cycling between desire, doubt, and the slow recognition that…

romantic neglect patience and its limits loneliness and longing

I Want Your Sex, Pts. 1 & 2

George Michael

George Michael turns a single, blunt demand into a sustained argument about desire, patience, and monogamy, dressing up a simple…

sexual desire and frustration persuasion and rhetoric monogamy versus promiscuity

Kokomo, IN

Japanese Breakfast

A song written from the point of view of someone left behind by a person who's moved on to a bigger life, framed as a letter of…

unrequited devotion being left behind longing and patience

Rome Wasn't Built In a Day

Nick Lowe

A patient seducer's pep talk to himself, dressed up as courtly persistence rather than creepy fixation. Nick Lowe uses the…

patience and persistence romantic pursuit self-delusion vs. sincerity

The Panties

Mos Def

A slow-burn seduction song built almost entirely on repetition and murmured reassurance rather than narrative incident. Mos Def…

seduction and patience presence over words physical intimacy as the only true communication

Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Annie Lennox

A domestic warning delivered as slow-burning soul: a woman absorbs quiet humiliation night after night until patience curdles…

repressed anger domestic betrayal the limits of patience

Waitin' for the Bus

ZZ Top

A sparse twelve-bar blues vignette about riding public transit home from work, delivered with the stoic patience of traditional…

working-class routine patience and endurance aspiration/upward mobility

Mind Your Own Business (Show 9)

Hank Williams

This is a live radio performance of Hank Williams' comic novelty song, framed by an announcer's folksy introduction before…

privacy versus gossip marital independence rural community friction

Symmetry

Saba

"Symmetry" is a love song built around the idea of a soulmate as a mathematical match — two halves that complete a balanced…

soulmates and fate patience in love self-fulfillment

Cool It Down

The Velvet Underground

A loose, easy-rolling shuffle about romantic patience versus urgency, dressed in vague hints of bureaucratic or criminal…

desire vs. patience urban anonymity casual detachment

Vienna

Billy Joel

A weary older voice counsels a driven young person to ease off the throttle, arguing that ambition pursued without patience…

ambition versus patience fear of mortality burnout

One Step Too Far

Faithless

A spare, hypnotic track built around a duet between a weary addressee and a narrator who keeps circling back to the same stalled…

emotional exhaustion codependency unrequited devotion

Tape Loop

Morcheeba

A hazy, low-tempo meditation on repetition and disillusionment, built around the image of a tape loop that keeps cycling without…

repetition and stagnation disillusionment patience vs. futility

Faith

George Michael

A dance-pop declaration of self-preservation dressed up as a love song: the narrator is attracted to someone but refuses to hand…

romantic self-protection distrust of surface attraction patience versus desire

Beautiful Boy

Ben Harper

This is Ben Harper's recorded cover of John Lennon's tender lullaby to his son, repurposed here for a benefit compilation…

parental love and protection innocence versus fear impermanence and time passing

If It Takes a Lifetime

Jason Isbell

A recovering man tallies the small, unglamorous work of staying sober and rebuilding a life, using a job anniversary as a rough…

recovery and sobriety patience versus instant redemption estrangement from home and self

Waiting In Vain

Annie Lennox

This is Annie Lennox's reading of the Bob Marley & the Wailers song, retooled from reggae original into a slower,…

unrequited devotion patience versus self-respect power imbalance in courtship

Never Enough

Groove Theory

A mid-tempo R&B ballad about a relationship running on fantasy rather than substance, where the narrator's waking life keeps…

emotional neglect fantasy vs. reality self-worth and ultimatums

Storm

José González

A spare, fingerpicked plea for reunion that uses weather as the only real metaphor for emotional confusion. The speaker admits…

emotional distance waiting and patience self-doubt

When My Amy Prays

Vince Gill

Vince Gill's "When My Amy Prays" is a quiet confession of borrowed faith, a song about a man who cannot reach God directly but…

mediated faith marital devotion spiritual doubt

I'd Love to Lay You Down

Conway Twitty

A ballad built around a single domestic come-on, repeated until it becomes less a pickup line than a vow. Conway Twitty frames…

domestic intimacy aging love marital devotion

Flagship

Jason Isbell

A song about watching long marriages calcify and making a private, almost superstitious vow not to let that happen to your own.…

marital decay willed devotion nostalgia

From Hank to Hendrix

Neil Young

A meditation on a long marriage under strain, framed through decades of American musical and cultural touchstones. Neil Young…

marital erosion time and cultural change fidelity and belief

Hog of the Foresaken

Michael Hurley

This is a shaggy-dog blues built around an invented, half-mythic character -- a hog-shaped stand-in for abandonment and outsider…

outsider identity mock-mythology patience and resignation

Just Wait

Blues Traveler

A direct, unadorned address of comfort to someone in despair, built almost entirely around the repeated plea to be patient.…

patience and endurance depression and isolation reassurance from a friend or lover

Holdin' Out

The Lumineers

A spare, repetition-driven folk song about endurance -- waiting for work, for a person, for a life to arrive -- built almost…

patience and waiting precarity and work isolation

Hog of the Forsaken

Michael Hurley

A surreal folk parable built around an animal-totem figure, the 'hog of the forsaken,' who exists outside ordinary human…

mortality and acceptance outsider/scapegoat figures folk surrealism

Asking for Flowers

Kathleen Edwards

A woman tallies a decade-plus of unglamorous domestic labor and emotional endurance in a marriage that has quietly failed her,…

domestic labor and its invisibility marital exhaustion divorce/separation aftermath

Come & Get It

Selena Gomez

A pop come-on built almost entirely on one looped invitation, this song frames desire as patient confidence rather than urgency.…

romantic patience confident vulnerability obsessive devotion

Lay Lady Lay

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes takes Dylan's spare, folk-country invitation and rebuilds it as a slow-burning soul seduction, stretching the…

seduction and invitation patience and waiting domestic intimacy

Ready for Love

India.Arie

India.Arie lays out a direct, almost supplicant declaration of readiness for romantic love, treating the beloved less as a…

romantic longing vulnerability self-worth