Results for “patience versus impatience”

Songs

Another Tricky Day

The Who

A weary elder addresses a younger, self-absorbed complainer, insisting that their personal frustrations don't amount to a real…

patience versus impatience generational irritation perspective on suffering

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

Hung Up

Madonna

A dancefloor anthem built on the friction between infatuation and impatience, where the singer clocks every second spent waiting…

romantic impatience obsession versus self-respect time as torment

Sycamore

Bill Callahan

A meditative address built around inherited wisdom about growth and endurance, using the sycamore tree as its central emblem.…

inheritance and fatherhood growth versus impatience resilience

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

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

The Thrill of It All

Roxy Music

A propulsive opener that treats urgency and excitement as both a romantic obsession and a commentary on modern life's manic…

urgency and impatience modern anxiety and overstimulation obsessive romantic longing

Sexy Boy

Air

A woozy, vocoder-warped taunt built almost entirely out of one phrase, "Sexy Boy" pokes at masculine vanity and celebrity…

vanity and self-image celebrity and consumerism irony versus seduction

Lucky Star

Madonna

A buoyant early-80s dance-pop confection that turns a childhood wishing-star rhyme into an adult love song, celebrating…

infatuation luck and fate celestial imagery

Outdoor Miner

Wire

A deceptively sweet pop song from a band known for angular art-punk, built around the tiny natural phenomenon of a leaf-mining…

nature observation hiddenness and exposure innocence versus threat

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

Only This Moment

Röyksopp

A minimalist electro-pop meditation on love as a present-tense gamble, oscillating between dread that a relationship is doomed…

uncertainty in love presentism versus fear of the future doubt and surrender

All That You Have Is Your Soul

Emmylou Harris

A mother's warning becomes a hard-won personal confession, as the narrator traces her own failures to heed advice about…

inherited wisdom moral compromise self-possession versus loss of self

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

Time's Up

Buzzcocks

A jittery catalogue of mundane waiting -- supermarket queues, phone calls, cigarettes -- becomes a comic study in erotic…

impatience and waiting sexual frustration consumer banality

See No Evil

Television

The opening track of Marquee Moon works as a manifesto of pure appetite and willful blindness, its narrator declaring immediate…

desire and impatience willful ignorance denial of consequence

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

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

The R

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

Foolish Heart

Alison Krauss

A young narrator rehearses her own exit from a doomed relationship, arguing herself into leaving before she can be hurt again.…

self-protection versus vulnerability romantic disillusionment pride as armor

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

Gloria (Backstage & Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal)

The Doors

This is a live rehearsal-tape performance of the Van Morrison/Them garage-rock standard, stretched by Jim Morrison into a loose,…

adolescent sexual awakening performance and improvisation desire and impatience

Here Comes a Man

Traffic

A late-period Traffic ballad built around a single, almost mantra-like promise of arrival and rescue. It moves through soft,…

romantic deliverance waiting and patience escape from pain

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

Feel Your Love Tonight

Van Halen

A straightforward party-rock come-on built around a single repeated plea, this track trades narrative complexity for swagger and…

seduction and impatience male bravado nightlife and escape from work

Acércate Más

Nat King Cole

A bolero of pure romantic pleading, built almost entirely on two commands: come closer, kiss me. Nat King Cole recorded this in…

romantic longing impatience and desire vulnerability in love

Shut Off the Light

Betty Davis

A stripped-down, funk-driven come-on that turns a single domestic gesture into a sustained act of seduction and command. Betty…

sexual agency and command impatience and desire withholding/isolation from outside intrusion

Scandalous

Prince

A slow-burn seduction track built almost entirely around anticipation, in which the narrator promises total sexual surrender to…

erotic surrender impatience and urgency fantasy fulfillment

Stronger

Kanye West Tribute Band

Built on a chopped Daft Punk hook, this track fuses a nightclub come-on with a victory lap of self-mythologizing. Kanye…

ambition and self-mythology desire and impatience status and luxury as armor

Either Way

Wilco

A quiet, resigned love song that turns weather into a metaphor for emotional uncertainty. The narrator refuses to demand…

acceptance uncertainty in love emotional patience

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

Sea Stories

Sturgill Simpson

A first-person memoir-in-song about the narrator's years as an enlisted sailor, moving from grandfatherly advice about survival…

military service and disillusionment masculine coming-of-age nostalgia versus regret

I Grieve

Peter Gabriel

A meditation on sudden bereavement that moves from numb disbelief through raw protest to a hard-won, unsentimental acceptance…

grief and loss the body as vessel denial and acceptance

Everything In Its Right Place

Radiohead

An almost mantra-like opening track that trades verse-chorus songwriting for repetition and disorientation, using a handful of…

disorientation control versus chaos communication breakdown

Christmas In the Room

Sufjan Stevens

A quiet domestic carol that strips Christmas of all its commercial and decorative trappings and relocates the holiday's meaning…

domestic intimacy anti-consumerism presence versus decoration

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Carly Simon

Carly Simon splices the nursery rhyme about the persistent spider into the title track's refrain from her own 'Coming Around…

resilience cyclical hope romantic disappointment

Mystery Achievement

The Pretenders

A live rendition of a Pretenders deep cut that treats fame and validation as a slippery, half-mocked obsession. Chrissie Hynde's…

ambivalence toward fame self-invention desire versus disillusionment

Mile High

James Blake

A luxury-draped love song built on a Metro Boomin/Travis Scott feature that trades Blake's usual confessional ache for a more…

possessive intimacy material excess as emotional language fear of solitude

What About Us

The Fall

A talking-animal narrator, a rabbit émigré from East Germany living in Britain, stumbles across a newspaper story about a killer…

displacement and immigration institutional trust and betrayal tabloid horror as everyday backdrop