Just Wasting Time (The Otis Redding Way)

Please don't pay me any mind As I stand here by By the river side Watching it all go by I just find all this life quite scintillating? It surprises me every time That you can quite easily Brush aside your past endeavors 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 buses roll on by The truth is no one knows Where this river goes If I'm to rather wait Than just let the current flow If life hand you a bone That you know you need to throw And hope that it will go Where you want it to go If it hand 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? Basking by the river shore Watching the city I adore I don't know what's in store Anymore And I don't know why I should be happy But that's what life is For the most part Or so I hear That 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 buses pull on by The truth is no one knows Where this river goes If I'm to rather wait Than just let the current flow If life hand you a bone That you know you need to throw And hope that it will go Where you want it to go If it hand 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 buses roll on by The truth is no one knows Where this river goes If I'm to rather wait Than just let the current flow If life hand you a bone That you know you need to throw And hope that it will go Where you want it to go If it hand 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