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Wasting Time Lyrics by Jack Johnson

The Essentials

2003

[Intro]
Yeah

[Verse 1]
And I'm just a waste of her energy
And she's just a-wastin' my time, mhmm
So why don't we get together
And we could waste everything tonight
And we could waste, and we could waste it all tonight
Yeah, and we could waste, and we could waste it all

[Verse 2]
And I don't pretend to know what you know, nah, nah
Now please don't pretend to know what's on my mind
If we already knew everything that everybody knows
We would have nothing to learn tonight
And we would have nothing to show tonight

[Chorus]
Oh, but everybody thinks that everybody knows
About everybody else, nobody knows
Anything about themselves
'Cause they're all worried about everybody else, yeah
Yeah, mhmm
Oh

[Verse 3]
And love's just a waste of our energy, yeah
And this life's just a waste of our time
So why don't we get together
And we could waste everything tonight
And we could waste, and we could waste it all

[Chorus]
Yeah, but everybody thinks that everybody knows
About everybody else, nah, nah, nobody knows
Anything about themselves
'Cause they're all worried about everybody else, yeah
Oh

[Outro]
And we could waste
(Do-do, do-dee-do-dee-do)
(Do-do, do-dee-do-dee-do)
(Do-do, do-dee-do-dee-do)
(Do-do, do-dee-do-dee-do)

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"Wasting Time" appears on "The Essentials" in 2003.

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