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