It is a coming of age song of how people change and while it could be daunting at first, the changes we go through will make sense in the end. It talks about how people change dramatically and the people we met when we were younger, the people we bullied before and how they turned their lives around is the biggest clapback we will ever encounter. This is a heartbreaking song of asking someone to stay and proposing that they just allow change to happen and that they just grow without giving up on each other. Queen B’s performance of this song in 2011 at the UN in itself was already powerful but as a song, it is a call to action that we must not waste our time in things that will further only self-interest but to walk the walk of the persecuted and to be one with humanity because that is how we leave a mark in this world.
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It is about breaking free from the perceived ceiling or limit imposed by society and that we could be the people we want to become regardless of what people say. This duet by Lea Michele and Chris Colfer talks about breaking from the society’s mold of what is good for you and what is not. This is about coming home after many years and finding out how friends, family and places have changed and you are the only one stuck in the memories of how they used to be compelling you to understand that you have to change too because everybody’s changing. It calls for emancipation through history, knowledge and resistance to the enslaving pull of power and colonization. This song is a mainstay in the list of empowerment songs through the years. It is a coming of age song where the narrator became a famous star and he is coming back for the first time to pay homage to his town who made him dream and to just spend time in nostalgia and think about how friends grew up together but apart. Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer)Ģ0 songs about change 1.
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