Steve H had already written a guitar based song with these lyrics but began using them as Steve D began playing - and they decided to keep this. We spend a lot of our time in our lives waiting for something unusual or out of the ordinary to happen to us often without realising it.

Lyrics

Waiting for the Accident

Never knew my father’s father
Neither of them spoke
Signalling a sadness rather
Hidden ‘neath a joke
Laughter seemed the lighter life
Closer harmony
Waiting for the accident who is me

Never knew my mother’s mother
Legends in their mind
If only they had known the power
Of a touch more kind
Love is often thrown away
By what we fear to do
Waiting for the accident from the blue

While we wait, while we wait
While we’re waiting for the accident
Are we there, do we care for another life?
While we wait, while we wait
While we’re waiting for the accident to arrive?
Waiting for the accident to arrive

In the calling of the deep
Lay an ocean tide
One that smashes all it clings to
One that knows no side
If we dare to disbelieve
What the heavens told
Waiting for the accident to unfold

While we wait, while we wait
While we’re waiting for the accident
Are we there, do we care for another life?
While we wait, while we wait
While we’re waiting for the accident to arrive?
Waiting for the accident to arrive

Falling out of other pockets
Liberties and hope
Centuries of desperation
Clinging to the ropes
Sending all our lonely gestures
To another time
Waiting for the accident so sublime
So sublime, So sublime