Serious inspiration (updated!)

Go ahead, please watch the entire eight minutes.



What an amazing time
What a family
How did the years go by?
Now it’s only me…

Tic toc
Tic toc...

Like a cat in heat stuck in a moving car
Scary conversation, shut my eyes
Can’t find the brake
What if they say that you’re a climber?

Naturally I’m worried if I do it alone
Who really cares cause it’s your life
You never know it could be great
Take a chance, cause you might grow

Oh, oo, oh

What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting for?

Take a chance, you stupid ho

Like an echo pedal, you’re repeating yourself
You know it all by heart
Why are you standing in one place?
Born to blossom, bloom to perish

Your moment will run out
Cause of your sex chromosome
I know it’s so messed how our society all thinks (For sure)
Life is short, your capable (Uh-huh)

Oh, oo, oh
Uh, uh

Look at your watch now
You’re still a super-hot female
You’ve got your million-dollar contract
And they’re all waiting for your hot track

What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting for?

I can’t wait to go back and do Japan
Gimme lots of brand new fans
Osaka, Tokyo
You Harajuku girls
Damn, you’ve got some wicked style

Go!

Look at your watch now
You’re still a super-hot female
You’ve got your million-dollar contract
And they’re all waiting for your hot track

What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting for?

What you waiting for?
Take a chance, you stupid ho

I'd been a fan of No Doubt for years and years. I'd read all sorts of interviews with Gwen Stefani in which she talks about her struggles with weight and body image and how it's damn hard to be glamorous, and in the kind of shape she wants to be in. So when I see that she was this girl, I am blown away (go ahead and skip to 5:10 if you must). (Update: From a Fall 2005 interview with The New York Times: "What she does possess is ... a rigorously self-enforced humility. ... 'Everybody out there has a team of people behind them. That's just the way it is.' "

What are you waiting for?

What am I waiting for?