Tom Waits I Can't Wait To Get Off To Work song lyrics

I don't mind working,

'Cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,

I've 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 light on for me

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

But this job sweeping up here is gainfully

Employing me tonight

Well Tom, do this and Tom, do that, and Tom, don't do that,

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

Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift

And I'm a moonlight watch manic

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 and clean 'em good

Oh your loving I wish you would

Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet

This broom'll have to be my baby

If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawn's early light