John Mayer's Waiting on the World to Change

**Ginevra** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 03:42 PM

I used to like this song until I realized exactly what it was saying. Allow me to explain...

Also, I'm taking out the chorus after the first time I comment it, just incase you notice some parts are missing.

Quote:

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting
(waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
(waiting)
Waiting on the world to change

Why does it make sense to wait on the world to change? If everyone is waiting that disagrees and is letting the people who like it the way it is do what they're doing until they change, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

The people

Quote:

It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
(waiting)
Waiting on the world to change

Yes, yes it is. So stop complaining from a distance and get closer and DO SOMETHING.

Quote:

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door

Yes, it's just that simple. However this seems to be mostly an anti-war statement, which I can respect.

Quote:

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

I do like this part.

Quote:

It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
(waiting)
Waiting on the world to change

Usually when there's a fight to be made it's quite often the minority that has to stand up and fight. Never is it fair, that's generally the problem! Wtf. I don't see how this is really the thing stopping you from changing things.

It is addictive and has a nice rhythm and I find myself singing it sometimes when it's on the radio, but really most of it has stupid ideas to me, mainly the chorus.

**Opunaya** · 04-06-2008, 03:44 PM

That's because John Mayer's too much of a pussy to try to get anything done...all of his songs are about being a failure, must be why I life them ^_^;

Keena · 04-07-2008, 06:43 AM

bat at some point in the song it says something along the lines of 'one day our generation is gonna rule the population, so we keep on waiting....'

i think this song is geared more toward minors, who really dont get to make really big changes usually. I mean, they can't vote, and their opinions are often discounted just because of their age. So really the song is about biding your time until you can really make some changes.

**Opunaya** · 04-07-2008, 07:16 AM

So, he's talking about waiting for the old people to die off? But if you haven't noticed, people are living longer these days, which means, by the time they're dead, the younger generation is going to be old and stupid as well...so I think we ought to speed up the process. *picks up a baseball bat*

ochaos007 · 04-25-2008, 11:06 PM

uh. what i think john is trying to say is that "we" (as a whole) keep waiting on world to make a difference for the better, that doesn't mean that everyone is sitting around and doing nothing. they're actually people that try to make this world a better place. i think john is trying to send a wake up call to anyone who really listens to the song a wake up call by saying "we" (as a whole) need to get together to make this world a better place.

idk, maybe im right, maybe im wrong, but i think you misunderstood what he was saying.