Lyrics:

She dreams china white behind her eyes of china blue Her future wrapped in velvet and her memories wrapped in warm cotton Wool And the coffee grounds Are burying the hours that she killed In another murder of a day Her patience starts to crumble Like a rock that turns to sand And time breaks down to seconds When you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man She's checking out the doorway while she's checking out the guy Whose drunk imagination is climbing up the ladder of her silk clad thigh And the cigarettes Are burning up the hours that she killed In another murder of a day Her patience starts to crumble Like a rock that turns to sand And time breaks down to seconds When you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man, waiting on a Man It seems so long since yesterday The time goes by so slow When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show She shivers in a cold sweat that she's trying to ignore, As she wraps her shaking fingers round the loose change by the phone, She needs him more than she'll admit and more than others need to know, She hopes the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies, The time goes by so slow When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show. She prays that no one pays attention As she punches out the call, As she fumbles with the number That the panic still doesn't show, She prays the lights stay green all night She prays the traffic doesn't slow, And that the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies, Only butterflies, fly by every day While you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show There he stands behind the do