Everybody just an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' 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 seen ol' Joe for a long time. I hope that Joe's got news that things been goin' better out they have been 'roun' here, Everythin's been a slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I Everybody been [repeat chorus]
are waitin' for their sandwich Some are waitin' on An' then the Ah the they get real inspired an' they get up an' they start dancin' that boogaloo the chairs Salt an' shaker keepin' time Window shade up, rollin' down Seems like some of tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than 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' about years ago So they can walk little paperback store at a big glossy oversize paperback book All the Wheel of Time an' mantras An' Baba Ram Dass, Ram Dass, Baba Ram... Gonna ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you read about it in a Maybe some of you there making the scene We didn' know, we know I swear, we didn' know we was jus' waiting for now.
Yeah, but, been a-waitin' an' a-waitin Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' Waitin' in the water, jus' John been waitin' their time away.
Some are waitin' for a new kind of Some are waitin' to it on over to a new kind-a job, You know, ol' Tom Waits is you know, you know even ol', you know (sinks into Tom voice) you know even ol', you even, you even ol' Tom Waits, uh... you know ol' Tom Waits has been... you know even ol' Tom Waits has waitin'
He been waitin' by the docks, diners, uh... copy of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... back pocket, he's down... Lookin' for a blond to 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, authentic guy, ya' know a lotta might look like a wino these days but you check 'em out, get a wino card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then that guy... he's... he looks at Tom an' he says... I ain't say what he says... but... Tom, he it down in a little book, writes it all in a little book, doin' awright, doin' awright, doin'-an-a-doin'-an-a-doin' waitin' his time away.
Some are for the new Galileo Some are waitin' for the new are waitin' for the new Mr. Freud He was 'sposed to be about an hour ago. I was hopin' he could clear up for us jus' what's so funny this disposal we got here's We know it means more than just a garbage disposal, a... a symbol, it could be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta wait 'til Sigmund here...
Some are waitin' for the Some are waitin' for the are waitin' for the green, some are waitin' for the blue... You been for me, I been waitin' for you.
But now you know