Waiting to Happen

'Cause it's all waiting to happen
Yeah it's all just waiting in the wings
They're up there with their fingers on the buttons
Who's gonna stop them
Tell me who

I'm entranced by six topless women
With their dancing so tender and so free
And there's pain in their beauty
And beauty in their pain
It's all the same
It's all the same

One comes over and she whispers tenderly
Give me heart and I'll throw it in the sea
And we can float in with the tide
And float out with ecstasy
Just come with me
Hey boy come with me

And it's all just waiting to happen
Yeah it's all just hanging in the air
I can taste it and smell it with every last breath that I take
Just breathe it in
Breathe it in

Now I come outside to see a man weeping
In his suit he's weeping like a little lost child
He says I've lost it all
I've lost everything I had
Tell me who
Who's gonna love me now

Now I swear this happened and it happened just like this
The bouncer comes over and holds him in his big old arms
He says you had to lose it all
So you could start over again
Now in this rain
You are baptised

And it was always waiting to happen
Sometimes we're just actors in a play
And they tell us what to think
And they tell us what to say
Just let it play
Let it play

And it's all just waiting to happen
Sometimes we're just actors in a play
And they tell us what to think
And they tell us what to say
Just let it play
Let it play