Greg Brown: Waiting

Ref: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 awaySome are waitin' for the county fairsome are waitin' for a guy name Joe comin' inJoe's comin' in from the coastYou know, haven't seen ol' Joe for a real long time.I hope that Joe's got news that things been goin' better out therethan they have been 'roun' here,Everythin's been a little slow in the middle.Everybody, I mean everybody, I mean everybody, I meanEverybody been a-waitin' [repeat chorus]Some are waitin' for their sandwichSome are waitin' on tablesAn' then the tablesAh the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' they startdancin' that boogaloo with the chairsSalt an' pepper shaker keepin' timeWindow shade rollin' up, rollin' downSeems like some of those tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than thepeople sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all arou' 'emeverybody, everybody, everybody, everybodyI mean...refWaitin' for a bran' new day.Some are waitin' for a truck to comeSome are waitin' for a bus to stop, take 'em out to San FranciscoJus' about twelve years agoSo they can walk into little paperback storeLook at a big glossy oversize paperback bookAll about the Wheel of Time an' mantrasAn' 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 magazineMaybe some of you were there making the sceneWe didn' know, we didn' knowI swear,we didn' know that we was jus' waiting for now.Yeah, but, everybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitinEverybody been a-waitin' an' a-waitin'an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin'Waitin' in the water, jus' like JohnEverybody been waitin' their time away.Some are waitin' for a new kind of loverSome are waitin' to move it on over to a new kind-a job,You know, even ol' Tom Waits isyou 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 daysbut 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' awrightJus' waitin' his time away.Some are waitin' for the new GalileoSome are waitin' for the new PicassoSome are waitin' for the new Mr. FreudHe was 'sposed to be here about an hour ago.I was hopin' he could clear up for us jus' what's so funny about thisgarbage disposal we got here'sWe 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.....refSome are waitin' for the greenSome are waitin' for the blueSome 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 knowref