Waiting Around To Die - The Be Good Tanyas

Sometimes I don't know where

This stony road is taking me

Sometimes I don't know the reason why

So I guess I'll keep gambling

Lots of booze and lots of rambling

Well it's easier than just waiting around to die

Well one time friends

I had a ma I even had a pa

He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried

She told him to take care of me

She headed down to Tennessee

Well it's easier than just waiting around to die

Then I became of age

And I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar

She cleaned me out and she hit it on the sly

Well I tried to kill the pain

I bought some wine I hopped a train

Well it was easier than just waiting around to die

Then a friend said he knew

Where some easy money was

We robbed a man and brother did we fly

But the posse caught up with me

And drugged me back to Muskogee

And now it's two long years just waiting around to die

Now I'm out of prison

And I got me a friend at last

He don't steal or cheat or drink or lie

While his name is Codeine

And he's the nicest thing I've seen

And together we're gonna wait around to die