Everybody just a-waitin' an' Everybody just an' a-waitin' Everybody a-waitin' an' a waitin' and a-waitin' Everybody just waitin' their time
Some are waitin' for the fair are waitin' for a guy name Joe comin' in Joe's comin' in from the You know, seen ol' Joe for a real long time. I hope that Joe's got news that things been goin' out there than they have been here, been a little slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I everybody, I mean Everybody been [repeat chorus]
Some are for their sandwich Some are on tables An' the tables Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' start that boogaloo with the chairs Salt an' pepper shaker time Window shade up, rollin' down Seems like some of those tables and got a lot more spunk than the people sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all 'em
everybody, everybody, everybody, I mean...
Waitin' for a new day.
are waitin' for a truck to come Some are waitin' for a bus to stop, 'em out to San Francisco about twelve years ago So they can walk into paperback store Look at a big glossy oversize book All about the Wheel of Time an' An' Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram... Gonna tell ya' it's all about. Maybe some a' you about it in a magazine Maybe some of you were there making the We didn' know, we didn' I swear, we didn' know we was jus' waiting for now.
Yeah, but, everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin been a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' Waitin' in the water, jus' John Everybody been waitin' time away.
Some are waitin' for a new of lover 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 even ol' Tom Waits, uh... you even ol' Tom Waits has been... you know even ol' Tom has been waitin'
He waitin' down by the docks, diners, uh... copy of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... back pocket, waitin' down... Lookin' for a blond to come in with big 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 real, original, authentic wino-type guy, ya' know a lotta people might look like a these days but you gotta 'em out, gotta get a card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then that 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, doin' awright, awright Jus' his time away.
Some are for the new Galileo are waitin' for the new Picasso Some are waitin' for the new Mr. He was 'sposed to be here about an ago. I was hopin' he clear up for us jus' what's so funny about this garbage disposal we got We know it means than just a garbage disposal, it's a... It's a symbol, it be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta 'til Sigmund gets here...
Some are for the green are waitin' 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