Listening to that song today brought a bit of calmness to me. Wasting time, sitting on the dock of the Bay, watching the tide roll away.
Here the words-
Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
'Cause I've had nothin' to live for
It look like nothin's gonna come my way
So I'm just gon' sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time
Look like nothin's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes
Sittin' here restin' my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone, listen
Two thousand miles, I roam
Just to make this dock my home
Now I'm just gon' sit, at the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh yeah
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Love it, for the day anyhow. I worked hard for many years but on the few occasions where I changed jobs or locations, it was a very interesting period, just trying to figure out where the next gig would be or come from. They always seemed to show up or find me, I never had to work to hard to find a call or change places or positions. I didn’t always get what I wanted but I got what I needed.
This time its different. I’m not looking for the next gig. I’m looking at this life in total. I wish I could have thought like this when I was young. I wish I would have gone into my 20s and 30s with more awareness of what I wanted to do in this life. But alas, it was not to be.
Now I can reclaim a small part of that wish. And I don’t have to go shopping for a new gig, I know it will come, I just have to enjoy restin my bones and wasting some time.