Waitin'
from Smoke Up Close by Colin Vearncombe
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the night sits on us like a great black bird
and somewhere out there the big cats are prowling
and the women are out on the street
ripe and sleek
in dresses like gauze
are you listening?
we are ready, we are waiting
waiting for you to come
there’s an old crone sitting in a rocking chair
nursing a colt ’45 as she teases up her hair
and her mouth’s like a door for the dead
lipstick red
and she grins without cause
we’re not unhappy, we’re still unsure
we’re moving
moving out today
moving on to a different place
waiting for you to come
you can see ten miles along highway nine
and you know you don’t wanna be a sad old guy
like a mirror held up to turbulent times
knowing your only crime
was you were too scared to fight
we’re not unhappy, we’re still unsure
we’re moving
moving out today
moving on to a different place
waiting for you to come
and somewhere out there the big cats are prowling
and the women are out on the street
ripe and sleek
in dresses like gauze
are you listening?
we are ready, we are waiting
waiting for you to come
there’s an old crone sitting in a rocking chair
nursing a colt ’45 as she teases up her hair
and her mouth’s like a door for the dead
lipstick red
and she grins without cause
we’re not unhappy, we’re still unsure
we’re moving
moving out today
moving on to a different place
waiting for you to come
you can see ten miles along highway nine
and you know you don’t wanna be a sad old guy
like a mirror held up to turbulent times
knowing your only crime
was you were too scared to fight
we’re not unhappy, we’re still unsure
we’re moving
moving out today
moving on to a different place
waiting for you to come
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from Smoke Up Close,
released November 1, 2002
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Black
Colin Vearncombe, otherwise known as Black, was born in Liverpool on 26 May 1962.
He had three top-
ten records across Europe and sold over two million albums before leaving the mainstream and going independent. He released a string of albums as Black and under his own name on his own label; Nero Schwarz.
He died in a motor accident in January 2016. His legacy lives on in the Love, Colin project.
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