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Riff: Lily Allen – “What You Waiting For?”

Jun 11, 2018

I turned a strong man weak/I threw him down, brought him to his knees/I’m hoping somehow he’ll forgive me/I think to myself

from What You Waiting For? lyrics by Lily Allen

She savagely broke her man’s heart, and now she’s feeling an avalanche of regret. It was a bad split and she’s realizing that she made a terrible mistake. The thought is bringing her back to when things were perfect, and that she was serious when she said that she wanted to marry him. Now that she’s alone all she has are her thoughts, and the screaming silence is driving her mad.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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