'Standing In Line' - Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil

STANDING IN LINE (Lyrics)

We shared the world like a private joke
Laughed our way out of hues and cries
Inhaled under the Bridge of Sighs
It’s not the way it was

The weather came
you were skating on fire
And love spilled out like antifreeze
The ice floes melted
in separate seas
If I was slow to learn
I will wait for another turn

I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG
I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG
I’VE BEEN WEIGHING THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

You draw your lines from memory’s cage
I write songs for a jealous God
Two spoiled kids and a velvet rod
It’s not the way it was
And I’d pursue you through any hell
I’d swim upstream ‘til I find the source
Dam the Mississippi and change its course
If it was up to me
If it was mine to turn

I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG
I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG
I’VE BEEN WEIGHING THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG
I’VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT WENT WRONG
I’VE BEEN WEIGHING THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

you’ll come to
sooner or later
you’ll come to

I’VE BEEN STANDING IN LINE SO LONG…
AND I’M NOT GONNA LEAVE

[pauls.johnson]

I keep repeating this:Steve Taylor is a Creative Musical Genius!!!

[PricklyPear]

This song rules. My son and I have been listening to it all morning.

[saintdepraved]

Any Steve Taylor is good Steve Taylor, this, however, is great Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil!

[robertbondurant]

this is old school newsboys jam with Steve singing! perfect! I miss Steve and newsboys with Peter! Love this band! Wish they were prolific!

[icewolfbc]

Love this. Seriously. I'm getting this album ASAP. Steve and the boys are as good as ever. Peter Furler on drums and backing vocals is fantastic.

[SteveKing]

Wow! Just discovered this and feel like I could listed to it on repeat all evening

[mightyzygote]

Steve Taylor is the one Christian songwriter I retain a great deal of respect for. And I bloody love this song!

[tlinford]

This is no right, on a number of levels…. just beautiful..

[jamesfish]

Great stuff Steve!  I predict this will go all the way.  I just had to.  looking forward to the album release.

[joeskis]

this is better than it has a right to be.

[ernesthough]

I absolutely love the song and video! One question though: what movie is the video taken from?

[southernrocker]

I really want to love the song, and I do like it. It is very modern with fantastic musicianship. However maybe that's the problem.I am not modern and I really feel for this song to be great it needs an instrumental break\ guitar solo. To flesh it out. I love Steve and Jimmy A, but I guess I just expect more from the songs. I am and always will be a classic rocker!!

[rockdesertsun]

ONE WORD ABOUT STEVE TAYLOR & THE PERFECT FOIL IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE OTHER VIDEOS, THEY WILL WOW YOU OUT!! CHECK OUT 'MOONSHOT'' IT'S ONLY A RIDE' & 'GOLIATH' IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS GUY, WELL, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!! NO!! STEVE TAYLOR IS A MULTI-TALENTED MUSICAL GENIUS, MOVIE PRODUCER, AND SONGWRITER, AND ABOVE ALL, HE'S A CHRISTIAN!!  HIS MUSIC GOES BACK TO 1983, BUT IF YOU WANT TO HEAR TRUE 'NEW WAVE' THEN I'D SUGGEST YOU LISTEN TO 'MELTDOWN AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S', HE DID A VIDEO FOR THAT SONG, FROM AN AWESOME ALBUM BY THE SAME NAME, IN 1984. I'M A RADIO DJ SO I KNOWS OF WHAT I SPEAK!!! IF YOU'VE GOT AN OPEN MIND, AND YOUR BRAIN HAS NOT LEAKED OUT, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO HIS OTHER STUFF, LIKE THE LP, 'ON THE FRITZ' WHICH WAS RELEASED IN 1985, 'I PREDICT 1990' RELEASED IN 1989, AND 'SQUINT' WHICH I THINK WAS RELEASED IN 1992.  I HAVE NEVER, EVER, HEARD, READ, OR  SEEN ANYONE, CHRISTIAN OR NOT, SO, WELL, DAMN TALENTED!! HE'S TOURING NOW, ALL OVER THE WORLD, RIGHT NOW WITH HIS BAND, 'THE PERFECT FOIL' AND THE LP, NOT TO BE MISSED!!! IT'S RARE A GREAT AMERICAN SINGER LIKE TAYLOR, IMPRESSES ME AS MUCH, BUT STEVE TAYLOR DOES!!! GOD BLESS YOU STEVE TAYLOR & THE PERFECT FOIL!!!

[markm]

Very Benny Hill meets Benny Hinn... A lot of dressing in bad suits chasing stuff you'll never get in hyper speed with no dialogue...