Waiting for Paradise

They know when you're about to die Cats come running to say goodbye They sit there waiting to comfort the ill They cull the weak, and come for the kill You know how in a thousand years They'll be talking about our foolish tears Thinking we could get by with half of us spent When really it had to be ninety percent I'm tired of waiting for paradise I'm tired of waiting for the love of God You know how it looks from space When everybody's building a Chinese wall And you're the only one sitting in place Because you're scared and scared it's going to fall That Egyptian god and his cats Waiting at the gate of the underworld Scaring you half to death Oh, what a crazy day it was I been praying for the good to rise And for the sinners to fall down I don't need no cats 'round here Dragging me down to the ground I'm tired of waiting for the rain to fall I'm tired of waiting for paradise Oh, Jesus I've been good so long Don't want to wake up in a thousand years I'm tired of waiting for paradise