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