“I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work” – Tom Waits

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Well, I don't mind working cause I used to be jerkin' off

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most of my time in the bars

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I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda fountain jock jerk

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and a manic mechanic on cars

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It's nice work if you can get it - Now, who the hell said it

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I got mo- ney to spend on my gal

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but the work never stops and I'll be busting my chops

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working for Joe and Sal

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And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby

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she said she'd leave the porch light on for me

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I'm disheveled, I'm disdainful and I'm distracted and it's painful

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but this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me to- night

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Tom do this! Tom do that! Tom, don't do that

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count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash, oh your lovin'

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is a rare and a copasetic gift

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and I'm a moonlight watchmanic - It's hard to be romantic

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Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine
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Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine

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I can't wait to get off work and see my baby

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she'll be waiting up with a magazine for me

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clean the bathrooms, clean 'em good

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Oh my lovin’, I wish you would come down here and sweep me off my feet

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This broom will have to be my baby

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If I hurry, I just might get off before the da- wns early light