Everybody just a-waitin' an' just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just an' a waitin' and a-waitin' Everybody waitin' their time away
are waitin' for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy name Joe in Joe's in from the coast You know, haven't seen ol' Joe for a real time. I hope that Joe's got news that things been better out there they have been 'roun' here, Everythin's been a slow in the middle.
Everybody, I everybody, I mean everybody, I mean Everybody been a-waitin' [repeat
are waitin' for their sandwich Some are on tables An' then the Ah the tables they get real an' they get up an' they start dancin' that boogaloo with the Salt an' pepper shaker keepin' Window shade rollin' up, rollin' Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk the sittin' 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 waitin' for a bus to stop, 'em out to San Francisco Jus' twelve years ago So they can walk into little paperback at a big glossy oversize paperback book All the Wheel of Time an' mantras An' Baba Ram Dass, Ram Dass, Baba Ram... Gonna tell ya' it's all about. Maybe some a' you read it in a magazine Maybe of you were there making the scene We didn' know, we didn' I swear, we didn' know that we was waiting for now.
Yeah, but, been a-waitin' an' a-waitin been a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, heavy in the water, jus' like John Everybody been waitin' their away.
Some are for a new kind of lover Some are to move it on over to a new kind-a job, You know, ol' Tom Waits 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 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 poems of Jacques or sumthin... back pocket, he's down... Lookin' for a 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 real, original, authentic wino-type guy, ya' know a lotta people might look like a wino days but you check '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 ain't say what he says... but... Tom, he writes it down in a book, writes it all down in a book, doin' awright, doin' awright, awright waitin' his time away.
Some are waitin' for the new Some are waitin' for the new are waitin' for the new Mr. Freud He was 'sposed to be here about an 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 than just a garbage disposal, it's a... It's a symbol, it be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta wait Sigmund gets here...
Some are for the green Some are waitin' for the Some are waitin' for the green, some are for the blue... You been for me, I been waitin' for you.
But then now you