Everybody just a-waitin' an' just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' a waitin' and Everybody just waitin' time away
Some are for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy Joe comin' in Joe's comin' in the coast You know, haven't ol' Joe for a real long time. I hope Joe's got news that things been goin' better out there than they been 'roun' here, Everythin's a little slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I Everybody been a-waitin' chorus]
are waitin' for their sandwich Some are on tables An' then the Ah the tables get real inspired an' they get up an' they start that boogaloo with the chairs Salt an' pepper shaker time Window shade rollin' up, down Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk the people sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all 'em
everybody, everybody, everybody, I mean...
Waitin' for a new day.
Some are waitin' for a truck to Some are for a bus to stop, take 'em out to San Francisco about twelve years ago So they can walk little paperback store Look at a big glossy paperback book All the Wheel of Time an' mantras An' Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram... tell ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you read about it in a Maybe some of you were there the scene We didn' know, we didn' I swear, we didn' know that we was waiting for now.
Yeah, but, everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' in the water, jus' like John Everybody been their time away.
are waitin' for a new kind of lover Some are to move it on over to a new kind-a job, You know, even ol' Tom is you know, you know ol', you know (sinks into Tom Waits voice) you even 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 waitin' down by the docks, diners, uh... gotta copy of the of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... back pocket, waitin' down... for a blond to come 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 lotta people might look like a wino these but you check 'em out, get a wino 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 it down in a little book, writes it all down in a book, doin' awright, awright, doin'-an-a-doin'-an-a-doin' awright Jus' his time 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 know it means more just a garbage disposal, it's a... a symbol, it could be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta 'til Sigmund 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 waitin' for me, I waitin' for you.
But then now you