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Waiting
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Sep 13, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Brian Courtney Wilson spends the whole first verse on a specific kind of blindness — "stood with my arms crossed, waiting for an answer... not realizing everything I prayed for was right there" — the problem was never an absent answer but clouded vision. That's closer to 2 Kings 6:17, where Elisha's servant needed his eyes opened to see what was already surrounding him, than to a story about unanswered prayer.
"You can overlook the very place you're standing in... not long ago you prayed to be in the very place you're standing in" turns the song's argument into a mirror for the listener rather than just a testimony. "My dreams may come in a different shape and size" reworks Jeremiah 29:11's promise of plans for good, not as a guarantee of the dream you pictured but of one that still counts. By the last verse the song stops asking for anything and just gives thanks — "I prayed for this moment but forgot I prayed for it" — which is the real turn: gratitude for what's already arrived.
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For so long I
Stood with my arms crossed
Waiting for an answer to my prayers
Not realizing, everything I prayed for was right there
But my vision was clouded
By the storm on the rise
Too blinded to see what was right before my eyes
Oh it was right there
Oh it was right there
Right there all the time
[Chorus]
Waiting for me
My dreams are waiting for me
Waiting for me
My dreams are waiting on me
[Verse 2]
See If you're not careful
You can overlook the very place you’re standing in
Wait let me say that again
Not long ago
You prayed to be in the very place you’re standing in
I wanna help you see it my friend
Because I was that way
Before I realized
That my dreams may come in a different shape and size
Oh it was right there
Oh it was right there
Right there all the time
[Bridge]
To try again
And just believe
That the God we serve
He answers every plea
Yes He does
[Verse 3]
You can pray and pray
Like you should each day
And the answers still escape your sights
When what you need
To live your dreams
Starts with opening up your eyes to see
[Chorus]
My Dreams are waiting on me
My dreams are waiting on me
My dreams are waiting on me
[Bridge 2]
What God is doing
What God has done
How God keeps moving
And how you’ve already won
So if you get weary
Or the way seems unclear
Remember the favor and faith
That carried you here
To the dreams that you prayed for
And the blessings all around
Don’t you forget it in fact say this with me right now
[Outro]
I prayed for this moment
But forgot I prayed for it
Now that I remember
I wanna thank God for it