Waiting for Life

"Waiting for Life" is Ti Moune's first solo in Once on This Island. She sings it as she works in the fields before becoming lovestruck by Daniel as he drives through the island.

Lyrics
[TI MOUNE]

A stranger in white in a car

Going somewhere

Going far

How it must feel to go racing wherever you please

Flying as free as a bird with his tail in the breeze

Even the fish in the sea must be longing to fly

Catching a glimpse of a stranger in white racing by

Oh, gods

Oh, gods

Are you there?

What can I do

To get you to look down and give in?

Oh, gods

Oh, gods

Hear my prayer

I’m here in the field

With my feet on the ground

And my fate in the air

Waiting for life to begin!

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

Oo la, oo la, oo la, oo la

Oo la, oo la, oo la, oo la

[TI MOUNE]

Mama's contented and Tonton accepts what he gets

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

Oo la, oo la, oo la, oo la

[TI MOUNE]

Happy for tea in their cups and no holes in their nets

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

Oo la, oo la, oo la, ooh

[TI MOUNE]

Happy to have what they have and to stay where they are

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

Oo la, oo la, oo la, oo la

[TI MOUNE]

They never even look up at the sound of a car

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

Oo la, oo la, oo la

[TI MOUNE]

A stranger

Racing down the beach

Racing to places

I was meant to reach!

My stranger!

One day you’ll arrive

Your car will stop

And in I’ll hop

And off we’ll drive

We’ll drive!

Oh, gods

Oh, gods

Please be there

Don’t you remember your little Ti Moune from the tree?

Wake up!

Look down!

Hear my prayer!

Don’t single me out

And then forget me!

Oh, gods

Oh, gods

Let me fly!

Send me to places where no one before me has been

You spared my life; show me why

You get me to rise like a fish to the bait

Then tell me to wait

Well, I’m waiting

Waiting for life to begin!

Waiting for life to begin!

[ALL (EXCEPT TI MOUNE, DANIEL)]

One small girl

One small girl