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Wasted Time Lyrics

Why...
Why do you go wasting your time on me?
You're so beautiful now
There's so much that's left for you now
Oh, yeah, babe

And why...
Why do you go flashing those eyes at me?
You know that I'm eager to please
I've always been eager to please
Oh, yeah, babe

But I, I've got a lot to say
And I'm scared that you're gonna slip away
And you, you've this wide-eyed gaze
And a smile that you'll carry through your days

Oh, why...
Oh, why...
It's the easiest way to know you're alive
And the beauty you heard
I see her talking with her hands
Well I don't think she knows
How she changed all my plans

Why...
Why do you go wasting your time on me?
You're so beautiful now
There's so much that's left for you now
Oh, yeah, babe

Why...
We look at the faces on your bedroom wall
Nobody's perfect at all
Sometimes it makes ya feel small
Oh, yeah, babe

Well I, I've got a lot to say
And I'm scared that you're gonna slip away
And you, you've this wide-eyed gaze
And a smile that you'll carry through your days

Oh, why...
Oh, why...
It's the easiest way to know you're alive
And the beauty you heard
I see her talking with her hands
Well I don't think she knows
How she changed all my plans

The things that I thought would last
Well, they're fading, they're fading
The feelings I used to have
Well, they're changing, they're changing

The things that I thought would last
Well, they're fading, they're fading
The feelings I used to have
Well, they're changing, they're changing, they're changing now
They're changing, they're changing now
Changing, they're changing now
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fangs404 On Sep 09, 2014
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Cover art for Wasted Time lyrics by Vance Joy

Its about a guy who is in love with a girl he feels is out of his league. He feels like he doesn't deserve her so he tries whatever to please her so she stays. He feels like he is holding her back as she is so beautiful and has so much potential. He feels she doesn't really care about him as she has posters of guys she'd rather be with in her room. This makes him feel even worse, hitting his confidence as he doesn't see himself anything like those guys. He decides to change his plans as he finally realizes that she didn't care when he changed his life plans for her. He finally decides he has to go as it will be better for her, and him.

My Interpretation
Cover art for Wasted Time lyrics by Vance Joy

I feel like this song is about fathers love and how he had been blessed with an at first unwanted child... As time goes on on the other hand, he realises that this child is a gift. Neither can he believe how she holds up with this rather hopeless guy that is her father xP.

I see how the song can be interpreted as him liking a girl and I feel like that probably is what it is about since Vance has that as a reoccuring theme in his spngs, but to me it feels like it can be interpret into such a beautiful song about a relationship between a father and his child.

also I think that the phrases "I see her talking with her hands", "we look at the faces on your bedroom wall", "why, why do you waste your youth on me" and "well I don't think she knows how she changed all my plans" show the innocent ignorance/unknowingness of a child.

@Moyabit I have to agree a lot of the song seems to be him describing a child and his changing expectations towards his own life "The things that I thought would last Well they’re fading, they’re fading The feelings I used to have They’re changing"

Plus you get the sense it's a one way conversation, it's like he's not expecting her to respond.