Soft Parrlet breaking
Lost in aisles of white
Corridoes are shaking
And I can see the Light

Waiting for something
Waiting for someone

Waiting for something
Waiting for someone

Please release me
I can barley breathe
I watch the ground beneath me
No more the want to be

Waiting for something
Waiting for someone

Waiting for something
Waiting for someone

Don't fall we could have had it all
Another breath you're taking
Slow rise your love is suicide
This heart is slowly breaking

Waiting for something
Waiting for someone to arrive
Waiting for something
Waiting for this day to arrive

Your hands upon me never give away
Temptation haunts you
Your hand upon me never give away
Its walks besides me always
Besides me always
Besides me always

They're calling you from heaven
To walk towards the light

Hey wait this time it's not too late
To stop this ship from sinking
Don't go so much you didn't know
It's never what you're thinking

I've waited for something
Waited for someone to arrive
I've waited for something
Waited for this day to arrive

Your hands upon me never give away
Temptation haunts you
Your hands upon me never give away
I've waited for something



Lyrics submitted by Bazal

Track duration: 04:13

"Aisles of White" as written by Clint Boge, Glenn Esmond, Ben Hall, Kurt Goedhart

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    General Comment:Pretty sure this song is about being in a relationship that means alot to you, then suddenly you meet another person who you fall in love with, and not really knowing quite how to feel or what to do.

    Think of the song name, aisles of white, if you were in a completely white room full of pure white aisles you wouldn't be able to tell where the aisles are, you would keep bumping into them. It's a really intelligent take on flying blind, in one way it has juxtaposition in that instead of stumbling around in the dark (black) you are in a pure white room, nothing is restricting your eyesight but your own perception, so it is exactly the same.

    I'll just analyze a few paragraphs to show you what I mean

    "Don't fall we could have had it all
    Another breath your taking
    Slow rise your love is suicide
    This heart is slowly breaking"

    He is telling himself that the love he is with is perfect, he would happily live his life with this person (We could have had it all) But he is feeling suffocated by this person's love, at the same time feeling immensity guilty that he is having feeling with another woman. The situation is causing him emotional pain.

    "They're calling me from heaven
    To walk towards the light"

    This could easily be thought as the afterlife calling for him, but I think it's a reference to his conscious telling him to do the right thing (You do the right thing, you will be rewarded)

    "Hey wait this time it's not too late
    To stop this ship from sinking
    Don't go so much you didn't know
    It's never what you're thinking"

    This is a hard one, has he gone and stuffed his relationship, then told himself 'it's not too late' to get with the other woman, he would not loose everything. He stops the other woman from getting away and spills his guts about how he fells about her. With a sinister ending that implies that he gets with this new woman and begins eyeing off other women, but telling his new love that her suspicions have no ground.

    Another possibility is that he stops himself from going to this other person, and stops this relationship falling apart. In the last moments he admits that he felt this way about another woman before his love leaves him, but assures her that nothing ever happened between them, it wasn't what she was thinking.

    "I've waited for something
    Waited for someone to arrive
    I've waited for something
    Waited for this day to arrive"

    Again this could support the other theoretical branches of the story, he waited for the day to arrive that he would find one love, and he found something else, something that would stop him searching for another woman. Or maybe he is looking back on how he searched for someone else for so long, until the day came he realized that he had her all along, then stuffed it, he knew the day was coming when everything would fall apart, so perhaps in this case he was waiting with apprehension
    Flag Sir_Jibbaloton September 21, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:On second thought maybe it's not ending life, ending relationship (like meg; said and sticking through it until it might come out right in the end.
    Flag rach_87on September 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:On second thought maybe it's not ending life, ending relationship (like meg; said and sticking through it until it might come out right in the end.
    Flag rach_87on September 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I don't know if I'm way off track here but i think that it's about someone's struggle with life and feeling like taking their own life (references to the light, sinking ship) and someone arriving in their life finally and them finally realizing that they have something to live for. In a way it similar to what other comments have said but just my take on it.
    Flag rach_87on September 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i dont really know what its about but ive been listeneing 2 imago alot lately and this is def. one of my faves, theres just something about it that makes you want to hang on and wait for the good things
    Flag ilovehoratioon November 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i dont really know what its about but ive been listeneing 2 imago alot lately and this is def. one of my faves, theres just something about it that makes you want to hang on and wait for the good things
    Flag ilovehoratioon November 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:this song builds wonderfully..

    i get an inkling that what the person in the song wants is a girl. this girl is might be going through some kind of trauma, & she is acting unlike her normal self because of it. she's in so much pain that she is hurting emotionally him too. but as much pain as she's put him through, he's willing to stick by her through this 'rough patch', because he cares about her that much.
    the stanza beginning 'your hands upon me..' may be the girl's sway/control over him, or her self-destructive thoughts. or maybe it's about their physical relationship: they've come close to having sex, but for some reason she stops herself..(maybe she was sexually abused?.. maybe looking too much into it.)
    in the last few stanzas, he might have said or done something in the heat of the moment that hurt her, & she's finally cracked, & he's trying to plead with her to stay. it seems this girl has little or no hope (for their relationship, or her exsistance), & he is the one always (trying to) picking her up again.
    what is he waiting for? possibly for the girl to return to her normal self...so the relationship can prosper.
    really love this song. TBE be rad.
    Flag meg;on July 23, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I totally agree with both "x_chronicxinability" and "yolanda", I believe this song is about waiting for something you want so bad. Whether it be for an event your waiting for to happen (like my 18th so I can go and see these guys live! lol) or for someone to realise or do something. It seems as though all he can do is wait because he has done all he can do and towards the end of the song he is pleading to someone else, I've gotten this from...
    "Hey wait this time it's not too late
    To stop this ship from sinking
    Don't go so much you didn't know
    It's never what you're thinking"

    But from the lyrics I think what he was waiting for finally happened...
    "I've waited for something
    Waited for someone to arrive
    I've waited for something
    Waited for this day to arrive"

    The song doesn't really describe exactly what that he wants, but I spose that is for us to intemperate ourselves.
    Flag Gollion May 19, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Because Butterfly Effect are the most awesome band in the southern hemisphere. Tool is No. 1 in my books and then these guys they are fucking awesome.
    Flag dan88on December 09, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:yah. i agree that this song might about obsticles being in the way of something you really want.
    great song.
    why have so few people commented?
    Flag yolanda.on October 08, 2006   Link

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