Just Wasting Time (The Otis Redding Way)

Please don't pay me any mind

As I stand here by

By the riverside

Watching it all go by

I just find all this life quite syntillating

It surprises me every time

That you can quite easily

Brush aside your past endeavours

Just by the plain fact of the sight

And feeling fine

I'm just wasting time

The sunlight by my side

Raise a bottle to the sky

As the busses roll on by

The truth is no one knows

Where this river goes

If I'm to ride the wave

Then just let the current flow

If life hands you a bone

That you know you need to throw

And hope that it will go

Where you want it to go

If it hands you a map

Then take advantage of that

And you will learn the facts

When you need to know the facts

And the river loves all that

Please don't give it a second thought

If you see me poor

Baskin' by the rivershore

Watching the city I adore

I don't know what's in store anymore

I don't know why I should be angry

But that's what life is for the most part

Or so I hear

But that's what life is for the most part

But not here

I'm just wasting time

The sunlight by my side

Raise a bottle to the sky

As the busses roll on by

The truth is no one knows

Where this river goes

If I'm to ride the wave

Then just let the current flow

If life hands you a bone

That you know you need to throw

And hope that it will go

Where you want it to go

If it hands you a map

Then take advantage of that

And you will learn the facts

When you need to know the facts

I'm just wasting time

The sunlight by my side

Raise a bottle to the sky

As the busses roll on by

The truth is no one knows

Where this river goes

If I'm to ride the wave

Then just let the current flow

If life hands you a bone

That you know you need to throw

And hope that it will go

Where you want it to go

If it hands you a map

Then take advantage of that

And you will learn the facts

When you need to know the facts

And the river loves all that