In the back room (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
I waited for you (waited for you)
Ya waited for me (waited for me)
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it`s raining outside
You said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke
Stood up, walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist
Couldn`t resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the room and said, "What`s goin` on?"
I just got back from down the road
Gotta couple a bottles of wine, somethin` to turn you on
What-a you think of that? (think of that, girl)
(Think of that girl)
I said, "Sit down cat, pull up a seat, you`re soakin` wet"
"Take off your coat and hat, wipe your feet on the mat"
In the back room (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
I waited for you (waited for you)
Ya waited for me (waited for me)
I said, "What time is it Charlie, where did we go all day?"
Seem to get nowhere and do nothin` but sit lookin` at each other
He said, "I know, I been doin` the same thing for weeks"
I look at the clock and all of a sudden I`m hypnotized
It speaks to me, it goes "tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock",
ah-huh The kid he said, "I don`t know what you guys do but
I been workin`
so hard, lately that I can just only fall asleep in bed"
So he played some more sounds and grooved a while
Somebody brought out some cherry wine, cherry wine
And we talked about what was goin` on in the music world
And other things
Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha
The rain outside came down like it came never before
Down, came down, it came, rain rain rain
And I said, "Baby what time is it, what time is it, tell
me what time is it?
"Ah, four-thirty"
So I peeked `round the corner, the blind
An` there ya go, there`s another girl that`s comin` home from school
Lookin` so cool, just learned her A`s to Z`s
And said,
"Hey man don`t look funny, all the little girls comin` home
from school
And they`re sittin`, talkin` and drinkin` and all them other funny things
A-ha-ha-ha
And Charlie said to me, "Ya know what?" I said, "What?"
He said, "Man you gotta go out there and do somethin` for
yourself"
"Feel like you wanna make it or else you gonna be sittin`
`round here like,
nothin` "
I said, "You`re right, I said "You`re so right"
He said, "I know" ha
I said, "Do ya?"
Said, "You know you`re cuttin` records, cuttin` records right
You come through that"
An` just through all the time you`re gonna be out on the road
I`m out on the backseat man, on the, on the highway
And the colors are gonna run
All of a sudden don`t ya feel safe the next gig, you gotta make it
"I said, "Yeah I feel safe
I said, "Yeah you know I can`t stay here all the time as
much as I`d like to
But, I just learned about all day and all night
And dig sounds, and go down to the river
And once the artists go through the motions
Gotta do my thing, aah-ah (in the back room) ah-ah
Gotta do my thing (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
FADES-
In the back room (in the back room)
