Eins, zwei, drei, alle
Ooh, you cannot reach me now
Ooh, no matter how you try
Goodbye, cruel world, it's over
Walk on by

Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come

We're waiting to succeed and going to convene outside Brixton
Town Hall where we're going to be
Waiting to cut out the deadwood
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers
And fire the ovens
Waiting for the queens and the coons
And the reds and the Jews
Waiting to follow the worms

Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms
Would you like to send our colored cousins
Home again, my friend?

All you need to do is follow the worms

The worms will convene outside Brixton Bus Station


Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by Mellow_Harsher, notoxymoron

Waiting for the Worms Lyrics as written by Roger Waters

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    Well I'm sure there's some deeper meaning, having to do with Waters' building a wall as diosaur420 said.

    But pretty obviuosly about World War 2 and Hitler, he was obsessed about it, as you see alot in the movie "The Wall". Wasn't his father in the war?

    Muzzyon March 19, 2003   Link

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