There are songs that are born from an idea, from the heart, while others are born from a story, from a question that you can no longer get out of your head.

Still Waiting was born that way.

As I was thinking about the story I wanted to tell, I found myself with tears in my eyes. I kept thinking about that kind of love that asks no questions, demands no explanations, and never keeps score. Absolute trust — the trust of an animal in the person it considers family. And that question that still stays with me today: How great must the pain be when you are abandoned by someone you trusted completely?

I am not talking only about loneliness, but about betrayal.

The Dog Does Not Know He Has Been Abandoned

Still Waiting tells the story of a dog through his eyes.

He is taken down a road, and the person he loves tells him to wait.

“Just wait, I won’t be long.”

And he lies down. He does not protest. He does not understand. Perhaps he simply believes that person will come back. He still has something beside him that carries his owner’s scent, his whole world. The food he was left, a place that, for a moment, he still believes is simply somewhere to wait.

Then a car passes. He raises his head, but it is not him. Evening comes, and then night. The rain comes, the cold, but he is still there, waiting, because he does not understand the meaning of abandonment. He knows only the meaning of waiting— just as when you come home and he waits for you, for that moment that, to him, means everything!

And Perhaps That Is What Hurts the Most

From the outside, we can understand what is happening. He cannot. We can think that person will never come back, but he will continue to believe that they might.

“If I Did Something Wrong…”

In the lyrics of Still Waiting, there is one line that, for me, says everything:

“If I did something wrong
Tell me what to change.”

If I did something wrong, tell me what I need to change.

That line hurts me because it contains something terribly innocent.

It does not say:

Why did you leave me?

It does not say:

How could you do this to me?

It says:

Tell me what I need to change.

Trust Is a Responsibility

Perhaps this is the thought I would like to leave with this song — not only the thought of animal abandonment, but the thought of trust, because trust is something extraordinary. When someone trusts us, they are giving us something that we cannot return intact if we choose to destroy it. And when that trust is unconditional, the responsibility is even greater.

I Understood This Through Adoption, Too

I have adopted an animal myself. I believe that when an animal enters your life through adoption, something changes in the way you see that relationship. You begin to understand that it is not simply you who chose them. In some way, they chose you too. They look at you, learn your gestures, recognize your voice, and wait for you to come home every time, perhaps behind the front door or looking out from the window.

We Have So Much to Learn from Them.

We have always said that animals need us. That is true. But sometimes I wonder if we are the ones who need to learn something from them. Their loyalty, their patience, their presence, their ability to love without keeping score, without asking for anything in return.

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STILL WAITING — A SONG WITH A PURPOSE

I would like Still Waiting to become something more than just a song.

I would like to make it available to associations, shelters, organizations, and volunteer groups that could use it for awareness campaigns, educational projects, fundraising initiatives, videos, or activities dedicated to fighting abandonment and cruelty.

Because if a song can move us, perhaps it can also make us stop.

And sometimes, stopping can mean saving a life.

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