Can't Wait (Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' Sessions, Version 1) Lyrics

If we do, then have a B flat

I can't wait
Wait for you to change your mind
I can't wait
Waitin' just to make a knee go blind

Do you ever lay awake at night, you're face turned to the wall?
Doubtin' in your thoughtlessness, and cut off from it all
I don't know
Maybe for you, it's not that late

But as for me
I don't know how much longer I can wait
It's got to end
Everything about it just feels wrong

I pretend
Being close to her is where I don't belong
Well, my back is to the sun because the light is too intense
I can see what everybody in the world is up against
I'll stay here
Where I can feel the hand of fate
And I don't know how much longer I can wait

Skies are gray
Life is short and I think of her a lot
I can't say
If I want the pain to end or not

Well, the blindness' overtakin' me is bitter like a drought
I don't know where it starts or where it's comin' from
That's how it is
Well, they'll try to concentrate
And I don't know how much longer I can wait

I've been drinkin'
Drinkin' forbidden drinks and
I've been livin'
Livin' on lame excuses

My hands are cold
The end of time has just begun
I'm gettin' old
Anythin' can happen now to anyone

I walk across the floor, 'til I wear half my shoes
You think you've lost it all, there's always more to lose
I'm still clear
She can't keep my head up straight
And I don't know how much longer I can wait