Waiting For The One

Track 3: Nick Cave "Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?"


I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near 
I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here 
Are you my destiny? is this how you'll appear? 
Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes? 
Well take that coat babe, and throw it on the floor 
Are you the one that I've been waiting for? 

As you've been moving surely toward me 
My soul has comforted and assured me 
That in time my heart it will reward me 
And that all will be revealed 
So I've sat and I've watched an ice-age thaw 
Are you the one that I've been waiting for? 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nick+cave/are+you+the+one+that+ive+been+waiting+for_20100068.html ] 
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built 
Out of longing great wonders have been willed 
They're only little tears, darling, let them spill 
And lay your head upon my shoulder 
Outside my window the world has gone to war 
Are you the one that I've been waiting for? 

O we will know, won't we? 
The stars will explode in the sky 
O but they don't, do they? 
Stars have their moment and then they die 

There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him 
He said, 'he who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in' 
I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting 
And how every little thing anticipates you 
All down my veins my heart-strings call 
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?


I remember when I met Bill thinking he was the kind of person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Little did I know he was the one. 


I remember being a little girl and wondering who was out there waiting for me. I wrote love letters to my future husband and over the years solidified what I wanted in that persons character (mainly by dating and learning quickly what I did not want). It was exciting to think this person was out there, somewhere, becoming the person I was bound to love and in a deep way I already loved him. I believe in soulmates and always have. I have seen evidence in my life they do exist. 


This song breaks my heart because I so whole-heartedly identify that feeling of such a deep sense of longing and also with the realization when you do find the one how earth shattering it is. For many years I confused chaos with passion and turbulence with a test of love. I had no idea there was any other way until Bill came along. My heart was truly rewarded by the revelation of our destiny. That destiny is we were the ones that we had waited for. 


Star's don't explode in the sky, but every moment Bill was in my life was lit by love. Pure and simple. He still shines, sometimes so brightly I'm blinded. My veins flow with love and my heart-strings do call out for him. 


And now I'm back to waiting. I'm waiting for the one I've always waited for. I'm waiting until we meet again on some cosmic plane. I'm waiting for the honeymoon we never got to take. When we meet again, we'll honeymoon among the stars. I'll kiss every inch of his beautiful face, hold his hand, and my heart-strings will finally quiet.