I Can`t Wait to Get Off Work — текст песни (Tom Waits)

(And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)

Well I don`t mind working
cause I used to be jerkin off
most of my time in the bars
I been a cabbie and a stock clerk
and a soda fountain jock jerk
and a manic mechanic on cars
It`s nice work if you can get it
now who the hell said it
I got money to spend on my gal
but the work never stops
and I`ll be busting my chops
working for Joe and Sal.

And I can`t wait to get off work
and see my baby
she said she`d leave the porch lite
on for me
I`m disheveled I`m disdainful
and I`m distracted and it`s painful
but this job sweeping up here is
is gainfully employing me tonight

Tom do this Tom do that
Tom, don`t do that
count the cash, clean the oven
dump the trash oh your lovin
is a rare and a copasetic gift
and I`m a moonlight watchmanic
it`s hard to be romantic
(sweeping up over by the
cigarette machine
sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...)

I can`t wait to get off work
and see my baby
she`ll be waiting up with a magazine for me
clean the bathrooms, clean um good
oh your lovin I wish you would
come down here and sweepameoffmyfeet
this broom`ll have to be my baby
if I hurry, I just might
get off before the dawns early light.