Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Waiting , by - Greg Brown. Song from the album One Night, in the genre Release date: 17.05.1999
Record label: Red House
Song language: English
Waiting |
| Everybody just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' |
| Everybody just a-waitin' an' a-waitin' |
| Everybody just a-waitin' an' a waitin' and a-waitin' |
| Everybody just waitin' their time away |
| Some are waitin' for the county fair |
| Some are waitin' for a guy name Joe comin' in |
| Joe’s comin' in from the coast |
| You know, haven’t seen ol' Joe for a real long time |
| I hope that Joe’s got news that things been goin' better out there |
| Than they have been 'roun' here |
| Everythin’s been a little slow in the middle |
| Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I mean |
| Everybody been a-waitin' |
| Some are waitin' for their sandwich |
| Some are waitin' on tables |
| An' then the tables |
| Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' they start |
| Dancin' that boogaloo with the chairs |
| Salt an' pepper shaker keepin' time |
| Window shade rollin' up, rollin' down |
| Seems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than the |
| People sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all arou' 'em |
| Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody |
| I mean… |
| Waitin' for a bran' new day |
| Some are waitin' for a truck to come |
| Some are waitin' for a bus to stop, take 'em out to San Francisco |
| Jus' about twelve years ago |
| So they can walk into little paperback store |
| Look at a big glossy oversize paperback book |
| All about the Wheel of Time an' mantras |
| An' Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram… |
| Gonna tell ya' what it’s all about |
| Maybe some a' you read about it in a magazine |
| Maybe some of you were there making the scene |
| We didn' know, we didn' know |
| I swear |
| We didn' know that we was jus' waiting for now |
| Yeah, but, everybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitin |
| Everybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitin' |
| An' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' |
| Waitin' in the water, jus' like John |
| Everybody been waitin' their time away |
| Some are waitin' for a new kind of lover |
| Some are waitin' to move it on over to a new kind-a job |
| You know, even ol' Tom Waits is |
| You know, you know even ol', you know (sinks into Tom Waits voice) |
| You know even ol', you know even |
| You know even ol' Tom Waits, uh… |
| You know even ol' Tom Waits has been… |
| You know even ol' Tom Waits has been waitin' |
| He been waitin' down by the docks |
| Diners, uh… |
| Gotta copy of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin… |
| Back pocket, he’s waitin' down… |
| Lookin' for a blond to come in with big tits an' bad teeth… |
| Uh, ah waitin' aroun'… |
| Bee bop diddily uh kee bop |
| He’s waitin' for his voice to clear up! |
| So he can say «good mornin'» to some real, original, authentic wino-type guy |
| Ya' know a lotta people might look like a wino these days |
| But you gotta check 'em out |
| Gotta get a wino card |
| Say «good mornin' «to 'em an' then that wino guy… he's… |
| He looks at Tom an' then he says… |
| I ain’t gonna say what he says… |
| But… |
| Tom, he writes it down in a little book |
| Writes it all down in a little book |
| Doin' awright, doin' awright, doin'-an-a-doin'-an-a-doin' awright |
| Jus' waitin' his time away |
| Some are waitin' for the new Galileo |
| Some are waitin' for the new Picasso |
| Some are waitin' for the new Mr. Freud |
| He was 'sposed to be here about an hour ago |
| I was hopin' he could clear up for us jus' what’s so funny about this |
| Garbage disposal we got here’s |
| We know it means more than just a garbage disposal, it’s a… |
| It’s a symbol, it could be a metaphor |
| Might be a simile |
| We gotta wait 'til Sigmund gets here… |
| Some are waitin' for the green |
| Some are waitin' for the blue |
| Some are waitin' for the green, some are waitin' for the blue… |
| You been waitin' for me, I been waitin' for you |
| But then now you know |