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Waiting
  • Track #1 from Waiting
  • Released 2001
    Green Day has played this song live 568 times
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    Lyrics
    I've been waiting a long time
    For this moment to come
    I'm destined
    For anything...at all
    Downtown lights will be shining
    On me like a diamond
    Ring out under the midnight hour
    No one can touch me now
    And I can't turn my back
    It's too late ready or not at all

    I'm so much closer than
    I have ever known...
    Wake up

    Dawning of a new era
    Calling...don't let it catch you falling
    Ready or not at all
    So close enough to taste it
    Almost...I can embrace this
    Feeling....on the tip of my tongue

    I'm so much closer than
    I have ever known...
    Wake up
    Better thank your lucky stars....

    I've been waiting a lifetime
    For this moment to come
    I'm destined for anything at all

    Dumbstruck
    Colour me stupid
    Good luck
    You're gonna need it
    Where I'm going if I get there...
    At all....

    Wake up
    Better thank your lucky stars....
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