I Cant Wait to Get Off Work — текст песни (Tom Waits)

I dont mind working, cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,

Ive been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk

And a manic mechanic on cars.

Its 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 Ill be busting my chops

Working for joe and sal.



And I cant wait to get off work and see my baby,

She said shed leave the porch light on for me.

Im disheveled and Im disdainful and Im distracted and its painful,

But this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight.



Well tom, do this and tom, do that, and tom, dont do that,

Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash,

Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift,

And Im a moonlight watch manic, its hard to be romantic

Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine,

Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...



I cant wait to get off work and see my baby

Shell be waiting up with a magazine for me.

Clean the bathrooms and clean em good, oh your loving I wish you would

Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet, this broomll have to be my baby,

If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawns early light.