Everybody a-waitin' 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 for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy Joe comin' in Joe's comin' in from the You know, haven't ol' Joe for a real long time. I hope that Joe's got that things been goin' better out there than have been 'roun' here, Everythin's a little slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I Everybody been [repeat chorus]
Some are waitin' for their Some are on tables An' the tables Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' start dancin' that boogaloo the chairs Salt an' pepper keepin' time shade rollin' up, rollin' down Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk the people in 'em, at 'em, all arou' 'em
everybody, everybody, everybody, I mean...
Waitin' for a new day.
are waitin' for a truck to come Some are for a bus to stop, take 'em out to San Francisco Jus' about twelve ago So they can walk little paperback store Look at a big oversize paperback book All about the of Time an' mantras An' Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram... Gonna tell ya' it's all about. Maybe a' you read about it in a magazine Maybe of you were there making the scene We didn' know, we know I swear, we know that we was jus' 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 Everybody been waitin' time away.
Some are for a new kind of lover are waitin' 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 into Tom voice) you know even ol', you even, you know ol' Tom Waits, uh... you even ol' Tom Waits has been... you know ol' Tom Waits has been waitin'
He waitin' down by the docks, diners, uh... gotta copy of the of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... pocket, he's waitin' down... Lookin' for a 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 people might look 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 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 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 for the green Some are for the blue Some are waitin' for the green, some are for the blue... You been waitin' for me, I been for you.
But then now you