Your Time's Comin'
Your Time's Comin' - meaning Summary
Rescuing Is Self-deception
The poem recounts a narrator who is drawn to a lonely woman and convinces himself he can love her better than her partner. As he prepares to leave, the partner returns and calmly reveals the woman’s pattern: she prefers strangers and will not change. The exchange undercuts the narrator’s fantasies, exposing self-deception and the futility of trying to rescue someone who repeats harmful behaviors. The closing lines deliver a wry, cautionary truth.
Read Complete AnalysesI knew that she belonged to someone else at the time, But lonesome-lookin' women are a weakness of mine; And so I bought that stuff about the love he never gave her, And I figured I would love her some, and do us both a favor. But just when I got up to leave, he walked in the door And I guess I thought he'd be surprised. He looked at me as if to say, 'I've been here before' And he offered me this word to the wise: cho; You know she's a cheater, son And you think that you're the one That's got a lot of what it takes to change her; I've no doubt that you can get her You ain't much, but that don't matter Nothin' suits her better than a stranger. (by Kristofferson, Silverstein)
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