The Waiting Game

Album: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (2026)
Charted: 28
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  • You can romanticize your shortcomings
    Ignore your agency to stop
    Write a ballad with the details
    While skimming off the top
    A personality, considering you've been
    A little overhonest lately
    And you apologize, a dirty clown

    You found someone to put your arms around
    Playing the waiting game
    But it all adds up to nothing
    You try and you always justify
    Playing the waiting game
    When it all adds up to nothing

    Playing the waiting game

    Do you tantalize or titillate?
    Knowing it won't make the grade?
    Do you leave it on the table?
    And you apologize, emotionally dry
    And years go by

    You found someone to put your arms around
    Playing the waiting game
    But it all adds up to nothing
    You tried messing with your own design
    Playing the waiting game
    When it all adds up to nothing

    Playing the waiting game
    But it all adds up to nothing

    Playing the waiting game
    And it all adds up to nothing Writer/s: Harry Edward Styles, Thomas Edward Percy Hull, Tyler Johnson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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