Van Morrison - The Back Room lyrics

Album: Bang Masters (1991)

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´d you think, it is raining outside?´
You said, "So what"

You turned the record player on
Had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the john
In a cloud of mist, couldn´t resist

A kitty stepped into the hall
An´ 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

I´ve got to couple a-bottles a-wine
Somethin´ to turn you on´
What-a ya think of that?

(In the back room)
(In the back room)

I said, ´Sit down cat, pull up a seat
You are soakin´ wet´
Take off your coat n´ 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?"
We seem to get no where & 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 am hypnotized
It speaks to me, it goes
´Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock´
Ah-huh

The kitty said
´I do not know what you guys do
But I been workin´ so hard, lately
That I can just only just fall asleep in bed´

So he played some more sounds
And grooved awhile
Somebody brought out some
Cherry wine, cherry wine

And we talked about what was goin´ on
In the music world, & other things

A-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha

The rain outside came down
Like it came never before
Down it 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?

´A-four-thirty´

So I peeked ´round the corner, the blind
An´ there ya go
´Theres another girl that is 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 are sittin´, talkin´ & drinkin´
And all them other funny things
A-ha-ha

And Charlie said to me
´Ya know what?´
I said, ´What?´
He said, "Man, you´ve got to go out there
´An do somethin´ for yourself´

´Ya feel like ya want to make it
Or else you going to be sittin´ ´round here
Like, nothin´

I said, "You are right´
I said "You are so right!´

He said
´I know´ ah-ha
I said, ´Do ya?´

Said, ´You know, you are cuttin´ records

´Cuttin´ records right
You came through that
An´, they get through all the time
You are going to be out on the road
´Oh, out in on back street, man
On the, on the, highway

An´ the colors are going to run
All of a sudden, don´t ya feel sick?
The next gig, you´ve got to make it
I said, ´Yea, I feel sick´

I said, ´Yea, ya know I cannot stay here
All the time, as much as I would like to
But I just learn about all day & all night
An´ dig sounds, & go down to the river

And once the artists go through the motions

Have got to do my thing

Aah-ah (in the back room)

Aah-ah

Have got to do my thing (in the back room)

In the back room (in the back room)

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In the back room (in the back room)

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