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waiting for the motion

January, 1992

from: Talk to Total Strangers

I’ve been around, seen many a face,
I’m always shuffling through the lost and the found I couldn’t replace,
and I’ve heard the sound, of a simple heart break,
taught me the difference between

what tumbles down and what you can’t shake..

waiting for the motion, waiting for the ferris wheel to spin,
a simple locomotion carries me to you from where I’ve been,
and I would go anywhere that roller coaster takes me,
anyplace it stops along the way,
lying by your ocean, waiting for the tide to come again..

I’d never stake any claims on you
any more than I would try to restrain the sun arising,
my only claim is that my heart beats true,
and being with you keeps me looking for the surprising… and

waiting for the motion, waiting for the ferris wheel to spin,
a simple locomotion carries me to you from where I’ve been,
and I would go anywhere that roller coaster takes me,
anyplace it stops along the way,
lying by your ocean, I think I feel the tide…a-comin’ in…

Notes:

F (D, capo 3)

For me, this is the classic example of "a song I was totally in love with when I wrote it, and now I'd definitely not ever play again, unless someone specifically paid me?" (Not that it's terrible at all, it just seems really flawed to me? But also, much respect to my younger self, who needed to write this song, and loved it at the time!)