Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just an' a-waitin' just a-waitin' an' a waitin' and a-waitin' Everybody just waitin' their away
are waitin' for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy Joe comin' in comin' in from the coast You know, haven't seen ol' Joe for a real time. I hope that Joe's got news 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' [repeat
Some are waitin' for sandwich Some are on tables An' the tables Ah the tables they get real an' they get up an' they start dancin' that boogaloo the chairs Salt an' pepper shaker time shade rollin' up, rollin' down Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot 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, 'em out to San Francisco Jus' about twelve ago So they can into little paperback store Look at a big glossy paperback book All about the Wheel of an' mantras An' Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Ram... Gonna ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you about it in a magazine Maybe some of you were there the scene We didn' know, we didn' I swear, we didn' know we was jus' waiting for now.
Yeah, but, everybody been an' a-waitin Everybody been a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, waitin' Waitin' in the water, jus' like 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 even ol', you know (sinks Tom Waits voice) you know even ol', you even, you know ol' Tom Waits, uh... you even ol' Tom Waits has been... you know even ol' Tom has been waitin'
He been waitin' by the docks, diners, uh... gotta copy of the of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... back pocket, he's down... for a blond to come in with big tits an' bad teeth... uh, ah aroun'... bee bop uh kee bop ...
waitin' for his voice to clear up!
So he can say "good mornin'" to some real, original, wino-type guy, ya' know a lotta might look like a wino these days but you gotta 'em out, get a wino card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then that guy... he's... he at Tom an' then he says... I ain't say what he says... but... Tom, he it down in a little book, writes it all down in a book, doin' awright, doin' awright, doin'-an-a-doin'-an-a-doin' Jus' waitin' his away.
are waitin' for the new Galileo Some are waitin' for the new Some are waitin' for the new Mr. He was to be here about an hour ago. I was hopin' he clear 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... a symbol, it could be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta wait Sigmund gets here...
Some are for the green Some are for the blue Some are for the green, some are waitin' for the blue... You waitin' for me, I been waitin' for you.
But then now you