[Intro] [Chair scrapes] [Heart] Don't start yet. [Silence] You ever spend so long waiting for something... you forget there was a before? [Rim click] Tick. [Rim click] Tick. [Heart] Yeah. Like that. [Acoustic guitar enters] [Verse 1] Kept my coat on in the waiting room Like they'd call my name real soon Watched the door Watched the clock Watched everybody else get up Read the same old page twice Counted every ceiling light Got so good at sitting still Started calling sitting life [Rim click] Name gets called Not mine Door swings shut More time Name gets called Not mine Funny what starts feeling normal When you practice it long enough [Pre-Chorus] I thought waiting was the job Thought patience meant the chair Never once asked why a room Built for waiting Had no window anywhere [Chorus] Waiting rooms don't have windows Keep your eyes upon the door Waiting rooms don't have windows So you don't see there's something more I kept waiting for permission From somebody keeping score Till I noticed— [Band cuts] The door behind me... opened too. [Silence] [Heart] Huh. [Verse 2] Kept a key from every room I ever waited through Don't know why Maybe some part of me Already knew Some years I was building Some years I was stalled Hard to tell the difference When you're busy through 'em all Somebody asked, "What are you waiting for?" Had an answer ready-made Sounded smart enough to fool them Almost fooled me the same Then I looked down at my coat Already buttoned Shoes already tied Nobody standing by the doorway Nobody saying, "Stay inside." [Heart] Wait. [Band holds repeating figure] Do that again. [Band repeats] Again. [Band repeats] No. We've done that enough. [Heart stands; chair scrapes backward] The door opens both ways. [Drummer changes groove] [Full band enters] [Chorus] Waiting rooms don't have windows! [Crowd begins clapping] Keep your eyes upon the door! Waiting rooms don't have windows! Till you quit waiting anymore! I don't need another number! I don't need to hear my name! If the door opens both ways— I can leave the way I came! [Instrumental break] [Tempo and energy rise] [Bridge] [Heart] Bring that chair here. [Crowd reacts] Yeah. Right here. [Chair dragged across floor] Spent years making patience Sound prettier than fear Spent years waiting for a voice To tell me why I was here I ain't angry at the fellow Who sat inside that room He taught me how to stay Long enough to learn when I should move [Heart] But I don't need his chair anymore. [Chair pushed aside] [Final Chorus] Waiting rooms don't have windows! [Crowd] OPEN THE DOOR! Waiting rooms don't have windows! [Crowd] OPEN THE DOOR! [Heart] Nobody's coming to get me! [Crowd] OPEN THE DOOR! [Heart] Nobody has to! [Crowd] OPEN THE DOOR! [Heart] Coat's already on! [Crowd] OPEN THE DOOR! [Heart] Then what are we waiting for? [Band surges] [Heart] Come on! [Extended instrumental] [Outro] [Music continues while Heart walks away from microphone] [Heart, farther from mic] Hey. Leave the chair. [Band keeps playing] [Crowd Member] You coming back? [Heart] Probably. [Pause] But I'm not waiting here. [Door opens] [Outside room noise enters] [Door remains open]
