Waiting For The Girls Upstairs

Hey, up there!
Way up there!
Whaddaya say, up there?

I see it all
It's like a movie in my head that plays and plays
It isn't just the bad things I remember
It's the whole damn show

Waiting around for the girls upstairs
After the curtain came down
Money in my pocket to spend
Honey, could you maybe get a friend for my friend

Hearing the sound of the girls above
Dressing to go on the town
Clicking heels on steel and cement
Picking up the giggles floating down through the vent
Goddamne this hours that I ever spent
Were waiting for the girls upstairs

Hey, up there!
Way up there!
Whaddaya say, up there?
That's where the keys hung
And that's where you picked up your mail

I remember
Me and Ben
Me and Ben we'd come around at ten
Me and Ben and hang around the wings
Watching things with what the hell was his name
You know, the old guy
Max! I remember!

Anyway
There we'd stay
Until the curtain fell
And when that curtain fell
There all hell broke

Girls on the run and scenery flying
Doors slamming left and right

Girls in their undies, blushing but trying
Not to duck out of sight

Girls by the hundreds waving and crying
See you tomorrow night

Girls looking frazzled and girls looking great
Girls in a frenzy to get to a date
Girls like a madhouse and two of them late
And who had to wait?
And wait?
And wait

And waiting around for the boys downstairs
Stalling as long as we dare
Which dress from my wardrobe of two?
One of them was borrowed and the other was blue

Holding our ground for the boys below
Fussing around with our hair

Giggling, wriggling out of our tights
Chattering and clattering down all of those flights
God, I'd forgotten there ever were nights
Of waiting for the boys downstairs

You up there!
Down in a minute!
You two up there!
Just keep your shirts on!
Aren't you through up there?
Heard you the first time!

Look, are you coming or (Coming, we're coming)
Aren't you coming 'cause look, if we're going (will you hold your horses)
We got to get going 'cause look they won't hold us (we're coming, we're ready)Be there in a jiffy)
A table at ringside all night (We're coming, we're coming all right!)

Hi
Girls
Ben
Sally
Boy, we're beat
You look neat
We saw you in the wings
How are things?
Did someone pass you in?
Slipped a fin to what the hell was his name you know, the doorman

How?
No
Big?
Fat
Young?
Bald
Harry!
Yeah
Okey doaks
Come on, folks
And where we're gonna go?
A little joint I know
What?
Great new show there
Hey, I thought you said tonight's be Tony's
This joint is just as grand

We girls got dressed for dancing at Tony's
This joint is in demand
Ta-ta, goodbye, you'll find us at Tony's
Wait till you hear the band

You told us Tony's that we'd go to Tony's (I told you Tony's?)
Then Ben mentioned Tony's (I never said Tony's)
Well, someone said Tony's (When's Ben's mentioned Tony's?)
There's dancing at Tony's (It's ritzy at Tony's)
All right, then, we'll go!

Waiting around for the girls upstairs
Weren't we chuckleheads then?
Very young and very old hat
Everybody has to go through stages like that

Waiting around for the girls upstairs
Thank you, but never again
Life was fun, but oh, so intense
Everything was possible and nothing made sense
Back there when one of the major events
Was waiting for the girls, waiting for the girls
Waiting for the girls, waiting for the girls, waiting for the girls upstairs