I've heard about a great big swindle
I read about it in a book
The book flew out the window
Was later found by thieves and crooks

And now they're singing Hallellujah
I'm wondering just what did they find
They say what's it to you
Just take your place and hide and wait
So I wait, I wait and wait

I'm one of the few survivors
In a drawer labelled "lost and found"
Moon travellers and deep-sea divers
Whose oxygen supply ran out

Now maybe, if their gods be willing
They'll give us something, fill our empty cups
Sit down in the boat! Don't spill it!
Or we'll just have to lie back up and wait
So we wait, we wait and wait
Yes, we wait and we wait, we will wait, we will wait 'til we...

You can hear it in the beat they march to
And you can feel the earth shake when they start to dance
You can tell by the way they move you
It's not murder, it's an act of faith, baby!

And as the world moves faster
Whiplashing us around and around
It's quite a slow disaster
And the people keep on falling down as we wait
We wait, yeah - and we wait, we wait and we wait, we wait

Hallellujah!