While You Wait for the Others (Live On KCRW)

[Verse 1] While you wait for the others To make it all worthwhile All your useless pretensions Are weighing on my time You could beg for forgiveness As long as you like Or just wait out the evening You'll only bleed me dry Yes, you'll only bleed me dry [Chorus] So I'll ask you kindly to make your way And what was left? A perfect cleft We all fall through [Verse 2] While you wait on the answers That I'll pretend to find Keeping up with the motions Still occupies our time You could hope for some substance As long as you like Or just wait out the evening And always ask me why Yes, you'll only bleed me dry [Chorus] So I'll ask you kindly to make your way And what was left? A perfect cleft We all fall through And all we want And what was left