“Wait It Out” played by Imogen Heap is a TEDTalk that really spoke to me personally because I am passionate about music and the message you can send through the music you play or sing. I really enjoyed this talk, although it wasn’t quite a “talk,” but more of a “sing.” The message from her song was made clear by the lyrics and majesty of the piano’s movement and deep resonance of the music. She was very professional in a laid back, yet serious way. Her presentation was to the point and entertaining.
Her difficult melodies, to me, meant that although some things may seem hard, there are little things that can be done to make them that much easier; that when you feel like you could not possibly get through it, you can. The song itself is about a girl who has lost someone close to her, perhaps not a physical loss but an emotional loss, and cannot find her way back. Sometimes, when you lose a friend or a family member, you are so lost and helpless to the conflicting and scary emotions you are experiencing that you cannot discover what will help bring you back to yourself. The song shared in this TEDTalk is solely about the solution known as “waiting it out.” Heap questions throughout the song the effectiveness of waiting for your problems to leave you. Most times, you are stuck facing the fact that even though time will heal you, you will never be the same person as you were before. There is still something missing. Instead of waiting for an opportunity to come along, you must find it yourself. In a world with unlimited possibilities, whether it involves art and music or technology and science, you CAN find something you are passionate about that will bring you back. You only have one life to live, so do not waste it on waiting. That, I believe, is the message that Imogen Heap was trying to share through her song. The video and lyrics are posted below:
Wait It Out- Imogen Heap
Where do we go from here?
How do we carry on?
I can't get beyond the questions.
Clambering for the scraps
in the shatter of us collapsed.
It cuts me with every could-have-been.
Pain on pain on play, repeating
With the backup makeshift life in waiting.
Everybody says time heals everything.
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between?
Are we just going to wait it out?
There's nothing to see here now,
turning the sign around;
We're closed to the Earth 'til further notice.
A Stumbling cliche case,
crumbled and puffy faced.
Dead in the stare of a thousand miles.
All I want, only one street-level miracle.
I'll be a an out-and-out, born again from none more cynical.
Everybody says time heals everything.
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between?
Are we just going to wait it out?
And sit here cold?
Well, We'll be long gone by then.
And lackluster in dust we lay
Around old magazines.
Fluorescent lighting sets the scene
for all we could and should be being
in the one life that we've got.
In the one life that we've got.
Everybody says that time heals everything.
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between?
Are we just going to wait it out? sit Here?
Just going to Wait it out? Sit here cold?
Just going to sweat it out?
Wait it out.
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