I’ve Been Waiting
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[Verse 1: iLoveMakonnen & Lil Peep]
I've been waiting (I've been waiting)
I've been waiting up 'cause I can't get enough, oh
I feel I'm fading (Yeah)
When I fall apart, your needle sews my heart, oh
[Refrain: iLoveMakonnen]
Fuck me up and make me just go crazy
Addicted to the pain that you just made me love
I'm fiendin' for your touchin' on the daily
You're the only one that I want
[Pre-Chorus: Lil Peep]
Break my heart but don't tell me I'm not doin' fine
'Cause I'm doin' fine
Let me go, I'm spendin' time
Not doin' fine but I'm doin' fine
[Chorus: iLoveMakonnen]
Why you actin' vain for my love, vain for my love
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin' vain for my blood, vain for my blood
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin'
I been dreamin'
Of your uniform, your uniform of non-conformity
The tears, the tears
Tears aren't strong enough, the years aren't long enough, no
[Refrain: iLoveMakonnen]
Fuck me up and make me just go crazy
Addicted to the pain that you just made me love
I'm fiendin' for your touchin' on the daily
You're the only one that I want
[Pre-Chorus: Lil Peep]
Break my heart but don't tell me I'm not doin' fine
'Cause I'm doin' fine
Let me go, I'm spendin' time
Not doin' fine but I'm doin' fine
[Chorus: iLoveMakonnen]
Why you actin' vain for my love, vain for my love
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin' vain for my blood, vain for my blood
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin' vain?
[Post-Chorus: Patrick Stump]
It's hard to miss you when you are always on the tip of my tongue
I feel like I'm looking for somethin', somethin' that'll never come
Call me when you're in the city again
My head just went oblivion
It's hard to miss you when you are always on the tip of my tongue
(Always on the tip of my tongue)
[Verse 4: iLoveMakonnen & Lil Peep]
And now the time is right, you wanna do me so wrong
Now the time is right, you wanna do me so wrong
When I've been waitin' (I've been waitin')
Long for you (Long for you)
[Bridge: Lil Peep]
I wanna drink my wine, I wanna pass that by
I wanna make her cry, she wanna make me die
Apple pie, six cigarettes
And I'll catch the vibe that we can't forget
[Chorus: iLoveMakonnen]
Why you actin' vain for my love, vain for my love
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin' vain for my blood, vain for my blood
When you got everything that I want?
Why you actin' vain?
[Post-Chorus: Patrick Stump]
It's hard to miss you when you are always on the tip of my tongue
I feel like I'm looking for somethin', somethin' that'll never come
I'll be waiting (I'll be waiting)
I'll be waiting (For you)
And now the time is right, you wanna do me so wrong
And now the time is right, you wanna do me so wrong
(I'll be waiting for you)
About
“I’ve Been Waiting” was intended to be the first official single from the album Diamonds by Lil Peep & iLoveMakonnen. The song was released as a single on January 31, 2019 and features the pop punk/emo-pop band Fall Out Boy.
The first snippet of this song was shared by iLoveMakonnen in January 2017, originally for Drink More Water 7 as a solo song. After he met Peep, Makonnen let him hop on the song, with various snippets of the collaboration being previewed & referred to by fans under names such as “Make Me Die,” “Can’t Forget” and “Makonnen Pie.”
On May 19, 2017, XXL magazine interviewed Lil Peep, during which Peep stated:
One of my favourite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favourite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together and that’s Lil Peep [laughs].
This statement from Peep was posted and teased on all of his social media’s on January 29, 2019.
It was officially announced on all Lil Peep’s social media on January 30 that the song would release the next day at 1 PM EST.
Q&A
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He said this in an interview with Complex
That song started in 2017. Me and Lil Peep were working on our album, and it was an idea I previously had before I met Peep. As we worked on the album, we were playing each other ideas, and this was one of the song ideas that he gravitated towards. So we started working on it in LA. Then we went to London and had some sessions over there to work on the album. During that time in London, we were just bonding with each other, talking about doing collaborations, and artists that inspired us and stuff like that. And then we made it back to America, and he unfortunately passed away.
iLoveMakonnen said this in a interview to Complex
After [Peep’s] passing, Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy reached out to me, extended his condolences, and said, “Is there anything I can do?” I was telling him, me and Peep were working on our album. And I told him Peep had said that [his style is like a combination of] me and Fall Out Boy. I was asking him if they wanted to check out any of the music, and see if they’d be a part of our project. I sent him the song, “I’ve Been Waiting,” and they were into it. So they added some elements to it and sent it back. We kept communicating, figuring out how we could make it into a full masterpiece the way it is now.
- 2.MIDDLE CHILD
- 3.Walk Me Home
- 5.365
- 7.Swan Song
- 8.Undrunk
- 9.Giant
- 10.I’ve Been Waiting
- 12.Last Hurrah
- 13.Bad Liar
- 15.Rainbow
- 16.Beautiful Crazy
- 17.Novocaine
- 18.Want You Back
- 19.Worth It
- 20.No Chance
- 21.Trampled Flowers
