Wait Up - Uncle Tupelo

I can only sing it loud

always try to sing it clear

what the hell are we all doing here

making too much of nothing

or creating one unholy mess

an unfair study in survival, I guess

but it always comes down to what to do when it’s all around you

and this tightwire act

leaving us here for dead to news of the world

and liquor piles up ahead

dodging those with words of power

forever on their breath

when the quality of life gets tripped upstrangled like death

it seems it’s getting harder out thereespecially without time enough to see

true to life is another hangover

true to life is more and more politics

true to life is always having to look over your shouldertrue to life is assembly-line sickness

but it always comes down to what to do when it’s all around you

and this tightwire actleaving us here for dead to news of the world

and liquor piles up ahead

dodging those with words of power

forever on their breath

when the quality of life gets tripped upand strangled like death

it seems it’s getting harder out thereespecially without time enough to see