Somebody's Waiting On Me

by Francis Baptiste

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I wrote this song during what was probably the darkest time in my life, amid big life changes after separating with my ex-wife and having to relocate several times for financial and personal reasons. I had moved to the Okanagan to be with my family, then moved back to Vancouver for work, but I wasn't working full time yet, struggling to pay rent in the most expensive city ever, and wasting way too much money on self-medicating my problems, and spending too much time away from my son as a result. Yet somehow I managed to hold onto a glimmer of hope, this idea that it's not always gonna be like this. And I won't always feel so alone. Though I was very isolated at the time, it was reassuring to think that someone was waiting for me on the other side, whether that person was my son, or a close friend, or a future partner, or even just a better version of myself.

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I don't know how I got to this place,
but I gotta move on for my own sake.
Repeating myself all of the time
yet I never quite seem to get this part right.
Somebody's waiting on me.
Get sunshine today for rainclouds tomorrow.
It's the only control that I've ever had.
Yet none of these pieces seem to fit that puzzle.
And nothing turned out quite like I planned.
Somebody's Waiting On Me

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released December 17, 2019

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Francis Baptiste Vancouver, British Columbia

Francis Baptiste is an Indigenous singer/songwriter. He is also a music journalist.

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