Results for “patience and delayed gratification”

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Eric B.

A late-80s Eric B. & Rakim track that doubles as a comeback statement and a victory lap, addressing fans who waited through a…

hip-hop mastery community and borough pride patience and delayed gratification

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

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

I Won't Be Long

Beck

A brief, hook-driven single that trades in fragmentary, almost dissociated imagery of division and delay, wrapped around a…

impending departure social division sensory disorientation

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

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

Death Letter

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson's reworking of Son House's Delta blues turns a stark, percussive country-blues confession into a slow,…

grief and mourning delayed love/regret death and ritual

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

White Horse

Chris Stapleton

A rock-leaning Stapleton track built around a single confession: the narrator isn't ready to be the storybook romantic partner…

commitment anxiety masculine restlessness self-awareness about failure

Mushaboom

Feist

Mushaboom is a domestic daydream sung from the gap between a cramped present and an imagined rural future. Feist narrates a life…

domestic fantasy vs. present reality aspiration and patience rural retreat

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

Odessa

Caribou

A narrator watches a woman in an unhappy marriage build toward the moment she finally leaves, the story told through fragments…

domestic unhappiness female agency anticipation and delay

Waiting Room

Fugazi

Fugazi's signature opener frames stasis as a political and personal condition, staging a narrator stuck in a metaphorical…

patience versus action media disengagement self-discipline

Lay, Lady, Lay

Bob Dylan

A gentle, direct invitation to a lover to stay the night, sung in a warm, unhurried voice that marks a sharp turn from Dylan's…

seduction and invitation domesticity urgency vs. patience

Death Letter

Son House

Son House recounts the death of a lover through a series of stark, repeated images: a letter, a wake, a burial, a failed prayer.…

grief and loss delayed recognition of love religious doubt

I'll Come Running

Brian Eno

A deceptively cheerful pop song built on an image of devoted, almost servile waiting, where the narrator's declared eagerness to…

devotion and dependency passivity disguised as patience domestic confinement

Run, Run, Run

Ann Peebles

Ann Peebles delivers a frustrated ultimatum to a partner stuck in aimless repetition, warning that her patience is running out.…

frustration with stagnation failing communication ultimatum and impending departure

Summer (Estate)

Shirley Horn

This is a slow, hushed apostrophe to a season, treated as a lover whose absence the speaker will endure with quiet fidelity.…

seasonal longing love as devotion beyond presence nature personified as beloved

St. Judy's Comet

Paul Simon

A gentle lullaby in which a father tries, with dwindling patience and self-deprecating humor, to coax his son to sleep. Beneath…

parental love domesticity sleep and childhood

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

Nat King Cole

A classic Cuban bolero of romantic frustration, in which a lover demands a straight answer about the future of the relationship…

romantic indecision frustration and waiting time slipping away

P.S. I Love You

Curtis Mayfield

A soul ballad structured as a spoken letter, where the mundane details of daily life become a vessel for tenderness. Curtis…

longing in absence domesticity understatement as intimacy

Time Has Told Me

Nick Drake

A quiet meditation on a love that seems both essential and doomed, framed as wisdom handed down by time itself rather than felt…

fatalism impermanence of love self-abnegation

Father and Son

Cat Stevens

A two-voice dialogue between an aging father urging patience and a son desperate to leave home and forge his own path. Cat…

generational conflict the ache of leaving home paternal love versus control

Untitled

Interpol

The opening track of Turn On the Bright Lights strips lyrics down to almost nothing: a single promise repeated and slightly…

reassurance anticipation emotional distance

Harvest Moon

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson's cover transforms Neil Young's rustic love song into a slow, smoky meditation on enduring desire, stretching…

enduring love desire and memory nature as intimacy

Work

Gang Starr

A boastful street-level anthem built around the double meaning of 'work' as both hustle/grind and criminal labor, delivered with…

hustler ethic street surveillance and paranoia status and reputation