Everybody just an' a-waitin' Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' a and a-waitin' just waitin' their time away
Some are for the county fair some are for a guy name Joe comin' in comin' in from the coast You know, haven't seen ol' Joe for a long time. I hope that Joe's got news that been goin' better out there than they have been here, Everythin's been a little in the middle.
Everybody, I everybody, I mean everybody, I mean Everybody a-waitin' [repeat chorus]
are waitin' for their sandwich Some are on tables An' the tables Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' start dancin' boogaloo with the chairs Salt an' shaker keepin' time shade rollin' up, rollin' down Seems some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than the people 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, 'em out to San Francisco Jus' about years ago So they can walk into paperback store Look at a big glossy paperback book All about the Wheel of an' mantras An' Baba Ram Dass, Ram Dass, Baba Ram... tell ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you about it in a magazine Maybe of you were there making the scene We know, we didn' know I swear, we didn' know that we was jus' for now.
Yeah, but, everybody been a-waitin' an' Everybody been a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' Waitin' in the water, like John Everybody been waitin' their away.
Some are waitin' for a new kind of Some are waitin' to move it on over to a new job, You know, even ol' Tom is you know, you know even ol', you (sinks into Tom Waits voice) you know even ol', you even, you even ol' Tom Waits, uh... you know even ol' Tom has been... you know even ol' Tom has been waitin'
He been waitin' by the docks, diners, uh... gotta of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... pocket, he's waitin' down... Lookin' for a blond to come in big tits 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 some real, original, authentic guy, ya' a lotta people might look like a wino these days but you gotta 'em out, gotta get a card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then wino guy... he's... he at Tom an' then he says... I gonna 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' waitin' his away.
Some are for the new Galileo Some are waitin' for the new Some are waitin' for the new Mr. He was 'sposed to be here an hour ago. I was hopin' he could up for us jus' what's so funny about this disposal we got here's We it means more than just a garbage disposal, it's a... It's a symbol, it be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta wait 'til gets here...
Some are waitin' for the Some are for the blue are waitin' for the green, some are waitin' for the blue... You been for me, I been waitin' for you.
But then now you