Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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From our video archives:
'I Can Wait' Written and performed by Rick Bailey, playing around with synthesizers.
Filmed in part at Don Brunning's house and in the alley behind the Great Southern Music Hall in Orlando. Photography by Kat Quast. Produced at Full Sail 1984.

The lyrics go kind of like this….
I can wait this time
I can wait this time
I can wait this time
I can wait this time

I look to hear a statement
A notice of intention
Any day
My face is surely sober
Not the softest mention
Of any strain

If I only knew
I could wait
I could wait this time
I could

A figure near a lakefront
Gives out pieces slowly
From his hand
Waiting on the water
Wasted, they wash only
Back to land

Oh, if I only knew,
I could wait this time
I could wait this time
I could wait this time
I could wait this time

I won't try to say
What I always do
I'll make surе not to feel
When I get near you

I
could wait yeah
I could wait this time

I don't believe I mentioned
I'll give you
Anything you ever want to wish for
Yeah
Anything a boy can do
Any trick or silly stunt
and
So much more

If I only knew
I could wait
I could wait this
I could wait
I could wait
(I could wait)
I could wait this time
I could wait this time

(And on and on following that train of thought)