Story Behind The Song

I heard a story about someone that would listen to a cell phone message just to hear a loved one's voice after they passed. The desire to hold on to a loved one was the inspiration for the song.

Song Description

Two people meet, fall in love, have a family, then one dies without warning. The others tries to hold on.

Lyrics

Waiting for You

Verse:
Falling leaves in Central Park
A million years ago
I watched you until you noticed me
Why you looked I don?t know

Take my hand and walk with me
Have I seen you here before
I felt I?d known you my whole life
Before you came to my door

Chorus 1:
I know you?re scared because I feel it too
But everything?s right when I?m here with you
So don?t be afraid, I?ll be by your side
And we?ll be together and make it just fine

Take my hand and be here with me
Just close your eyes and let your heart see
We?ll be together in all that we do
I?ll always be here waiting, waiting for you

Verse:
I want to see you with gray in your hair
And wrinkles on your face
Live in the same house for fifty years
Have a story for every little space

You go to the city and I?ll work from home
But I?ll see you tonight at six
Just call if you?re running late
And I?ll pick up the kids

Bridge 1:
But the phone never rang
And you never came home
And now I?m so scared
Cause I?m so all alone

I still smelled your perfume
For the first few nights
I kept your voice on the cell phone
To help me get by

Bridge 2:
And sometimes I still see you
At night when I sleep
You hold me and whisper
To me in my dreams

Chorus 2:
I know your scared cause I feel it too
But every things all right, I?m still here with you
So don?t be afraid, I?ll be by your side
And we?ll be together, just not in this life

So just close your eyes and picture me
And you holding hands like we used to be
Cause we?re still together in all that you do
I?ll always be here waiting, waiting for you

Verse:
Falling leaves in Central Park
A million years ago