In the back room (in the back room)

In the back room (in the back room)

I waited for you (waited for you)

Ya waited for me (waited for me)

Rain came down, pitter-pat

Say, what you think, it's raining outside

You said, So what

You turned the record player on, had a smoke

Stood up, walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist

Couldn't resist



A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door

Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door

Walked into the room and said, What's goin' on?

I just got back from down the road

Gotta couple a bottles of wine, somethin' to turn you on



What-a you think of that? (think of that, girl)

(Think of that girl)

I said, Sit down cat, pull up a seat, you're soakin' wet

Take off your coat and hat, wipe your feet on the mat



In the back room (in the back room)

In the back room (in the back room)

I waited for you (waited for you)

Ya waited for me (waited for me)



I said, What time is it Charlie, where did we go all day?

Seem to get nowhere and do nothin' but sit lookin' at each other

He said, I know, I been doin' the same thing for weeks

I look at the clock and all of a sudden I'm hypnotized

It speaks to me, it goes tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, ah-huh The kid he said, I don't know what you guys do but I been workin'

so hard, lately that I can just only fall asleep in bed

So he played some more sounds and grooved a while

Somebody brought out some cherry wine, cherry wine

And we talked about what was goin' on in the music world

And other things

Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha



The rain outside came down like it came never before

Down, came down, it came, rain rain rain

And I said, Baby what time is it, what time is it, tell me what time is it?

Ah, four-thirty



So I peeked 'round the corner, the blind

An' there ya go, there's another girl that's comin' home from school

Lookin' so cool, just learned her A's to Z's

And said,

Hey man don't look funny, all the little girls comin' home from school

And they're sittin', talkin' and drinkin' and all them other funny things

A-ha-ha-ha



And Charlie said to me, Ya know what? I said, What?

He said, Man you gotta go out there and do somethin' for yourself

Feel like you wanna make it or else you gonna be sittin' 'round here like,

nothin'

I said, You're right, I said You're so right

He said, I know ha

I said, Do ya?

Said, You know you're cuttin' records, cuttin' records right

You come through that

An' just through all the time you're gonna be out on the road

I'm out on the backseat man, on the, on the highway

And the colors are gonna run

All of a sudden don't ya feel safe the next gig, you gotta make it

I said, Yeah I feel safe



I said, Yeah you know I can't stay here all the time as much as I'd like to

But, I just learned about all day and all night

And dig sounds, and go down to the river

And once the artists go through the motions

Gotta do my thing, aah-ah (in the back room) ah-ah

Gotta do my thing (in the back room)

In the back room (in the back room)

FADES-

In the back room (in the back room)



(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!