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Waiting for the Man​/​Eponymous

from Live @ Pete's Candy Store Volume II by Marc Delgado

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Waiting for the Man is a song by The Velvet Underground & perhaps one of the finest junky songs of all-time. I am a great admirer of Lou Reed & believe he is one of our finest American songwriters. @ the end of the tune I go into a poem/story I wrote called Eponymous. It serves as a document & chronicle of the year 2001 when I destroyed a significant relationship (see Dear Kate) & The Twin Towers fell & I went completely off the rails.

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I'm waiting for my man
26 dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
Feel sick & dirty
more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey white boy
what you doin uptown?
Hey white boy
Chasin our women around
Oh pardon me sir
It's furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting' for my man
Here he comes
All dressed in black
PR shoes & a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
One thing I can tell you is
You always have to wait
Im waiting for my man
Up to a brownstone
Up three flights of stairs
Everybody body's pinned you
But nobody cares
He's got the works
He'll give you sweet taste
But then I gotta run man
I ain't got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler
Baby don't you scream & shout
I'm feeling good
I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good
I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow
But that's just another time
I'm waiting for my man

Clouds are usual white & sinister
Delivered in accumulated waves
Bursting forth into bright, white foam
So man violations of the spirit
The stone of imagination broken to rubble
The quick hammer
Carried from there to here
On this distal trip from birth
The way K cleared out in a Uhaul
Leaving only dust mangled on the floor
& a note
The note said this:
"Marc, I hope you get Syphilis!"
Three days w an eye to the peephole
The curved world outside
The herd I run w is full of chewed tongues
I'm a trailer-park Aeneas
Flung form the ruined city of noise
Destitute & beleaguered Troy
A burning white riddle behind me
I'm always looking for a home

Be kind,
Whoever you may be, relieve our trouble
Tell us under what heaven we've come @ last - Virgil

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from Live @ Pete's Candy Store Volume II, released August 2, 2022

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Marc Delgado Woodstock, New York

Marc Delgado is a singer/songwriter from Woodstock, NY. His new record: Wildwood Road is a psychedelic, poetic, cinematic coming home story. A blend of harrowing accounts of addiction & madness & the surprising & healing power of love. Recorded @ Hurley Sound w partner Producer/Engineer/Multi-Instrumentalist Justin Tracy. Wildwood Road is a bold statement & a hat thrown into the ring. ... more

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