[chorus:] Everybody just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' a waitin' and a-waitin' Everybody just waitin' their time away
Some are waitin' for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy name Joe comin' in Joe's comin' in from the coast You know, haven't seen ol' Joe for a real long time. I hope that Joe's got news that things been goin' better out there than they have been 'roun' here, Everythin's been a little slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I mean Everybody been a-waitin' [repeat chorus]
Some are waitin' for their sandwich Some are waitin' on tables An' then the tables Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' they start dancin' that boogaloo with the chairs Salt an' pepper shaker keepin' time Window shade rollin' up, rollin' down Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than the people sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all arou' 'em
everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody I mean... [repeat chorus]
Waitin' for a bran' new day.
Some are waitin' for a truck to come Some are waitin' for a bus to stop, take 'em out to San Francisco Jus' about twelve years ago So they can walk into little paperback store Look at a big glossy oversize paperback book All about the Wheel of Time an' mantras An' Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram.... Gonna tell ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you read about it in a magazine Maybe some of you were there making the scene We didn' know, we didn' know I swear, we didn' know that we was jus' waiting for now.
Yeah, but, everybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitin Everybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' Waitin' in the water, jus' like John Everybody been waitin' their time away.
Some are waitin' for a new kind of lover Some are waitin' to move it on over to a new kind-a job, You know, even ol' Tom Waits is you know, you know even ol', you know (sinks into Tom Waits voice) you know even ol', you know even, you know even ol' Tom Waits, uh...... you know even ol' Tom Waits has been......... you know even ol' Tom Waits has been waitin'
He been waitin' down by the docks, diners, uh...... gotta copy of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin..... back pocket, he's waitin' down...... Lookin' for a blond to come in with big tits an' bad teeth..... uh, ah waitin' aroun'........ bee bop diddily uh kee bop ......................
He's waitin' for his voice to clear up!
So he can say "good mornin'" to some real, original, authentic wino-type guy, ya' know a lotta people might look like a wino these days but you gotta check 'em out, gotta get a wino card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then that wino guy.....he's....... he looks at Tom an' then he says..... I ain't gonna say what he says........ but.... Tom, he writes it down in a little book, writes it all down in a little book, doin' awright, doin' awright, doin'-an-a-doin'-an-a-doin' awright Jus' waitin' his time away.
Some are waitin' for the new Galileo Some are waitin' for the new Picasso Some are waitin' for the new Mr. Freud He was 'sposed to be here about an hour ago. I was hopin' he could clear up for us jus' what's so funny about this garbage disposal we got here's We know it means more than just a garbage disposal, it's a.... It's a symbol, it could be a metaphor, might be a simile, We gotta wait 'til Sigmund gets here.....
[repeat chorus]
Some are waitin' for the green Some are waitin' for the blue Some are waitin' for the green, some are waitin' for the blue........ You been waitin' for me, I been waitin' for you.
But then now you know [repeat chorus]Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
