My father was from and is buried in Beaumont....ty for this brotha...it's a special song for me

"leaning on a memory"..what a great line..I am going to steal it..

Masterpiece of s song!

Great song, Hayes, it's in the same league as "you get it all" and "Rivertown" cheers

This song is so bittersweet

my favorite Hayes song

Life and Love ❤️ does always continue

We proudly claim him here in Arkansas

Great performance - beautiful

By far my favorite song of his. 🤟🏼

Love this guy!

I want to write a song like this someday

Oh yeah, love it! I cover this song on my channel.

@gunboom

2 жыл бұрын

And you do a great cover Matt.

@mattgrigsbymusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@gunboom Thanks!

When he says "I could not wait forever"- does he mean he couldnt wait to see her, so he came to see her or he came to see her and she was in the bar and he got tired of waiting and left.

@brigh12

2 жыл бұрын

I took it to mean that he couldn't stand just thinking about her anymore, he had to bite the bullet and go ask her out. So he "couldn't wait forever" as in he couldn't wait around hoping anymore, he had to act. But then she seems to reject him ("When I put my arms around you, I knew you weren't givin' in"), but he hopes next time he passes through she will have a change of heart ("I hope it will be different if I pass this way again"). But in the last half, I think he switches. He mentions Pasadena, which I think means he would have gone to Pasadena instead of going to see this girl if he had known about it. Implying he wishes he had just gone elsewhere instead, but at the time he was so in love he didn't want to give up the girl ("I'd stopped in Pasadena/If I'd known about this place/But you looked like forever"). In the beginning, he says he can't think about her anymore meaning he must pursue her in reality, but in the end he repeats the line meaning he must finally give up hope of having her. "I could not wait forever" in the beginning means he is acting on his love, but in the end, it means he has finally decided to move on. It sounds like the girl didn't necessarily reject him, but she didn't accept him either, she kept him in limbo and he had to decide if he would wait forever for her to decide.

@brigh12

2 жыл бұрын

But I also like to think that it ends ambiguously. You never know, maybe when he passed through again she did have a change of heart.

@texaswildflower7715

2 ай бұрын

I took it that he couldn’t wait for her to get over a past love. Move on. Can’t make people move on faster than you want. 🤷🏻‍♀️