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Today's Top Tune

Beth Orton ‘Waiting’

Today's Top Tune

KCRW

Music

4.2553 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today’s Top Tune: Beth Orton ‘Waiting’

 

Beth Orton returns with “Waiting,” a slow-building, life-affirming single from her upcoming album The Ground Above, out June 26. Blending warmth, wit, and emotional depth, the track reflects on breaking free from fear—offering a powerful glimpse into one of Orton’s most raw and direct records yet.

(Partisan Records)

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0:00.0

I've been waiting for the hood and a stop.

0:07.0

I've been waiting for the hurt and stop. I've been waiting for the punchline to drop.

0:25.6

Any time I hear the music we play, I dissolve into a puddle of rain.

0:34.6

I've been playing down the way that I feel

0:38.2

I've been hoping that I don't make it real

0:43.1

I've been waiting at the edge of a dream

0:47.7

to jump a fly before my beautiful winds

0:52.0

been waiting for the right time to come

0:56.0

To put the best dress back on

1:01.0

To catch your favorite song

1:05.0

And to find my way home to your love

1:10.0

I've been harboring around like a ghost

1:15.6

and all the place is gone away left unspoke

1:20.6

I've been playing down and playing the arcades

1:25.6

celebrating what a big win I've made

1:29.3

I've been following the river back home

1:34.3

I keep finding out a max that I'm proud

1:38.3

I was going to write a gratitude list

1:42.3

just got to work got my resentment to it

1:47.0

And I'm thinking

1:50.0

Because it gets to me

1:52.0

Perhaps there's nowhere else I would ever be

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