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