The Wait (song)

"The Wait"
Single by Metallica
from the album Garage Inc.
A-side	Helpless/The Small Hours
B-side	Crash Course in Brain Surgery/Last Caress/Green Hell
Released	October 1987
Format	EP
Recorded	A & M and Conway Studios, LA July, 1987
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	4:55
Label	Elektra
Writer(s)	Jaz Coleman Kevin "Geordie" Walker Martin "Youth" Glover Paul Ferguson
Producer	Metallica
Metallica singles chronology
"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" (1986) "Garage Days Re-Revisited" (1987) "Eye of the Beholder" (1988)
Killing Joke track listing "Bloodsport" (4) "The Wait" (5) "Complications" (6) Killing Joke (US release) track listing "Change" (5) "The Wait" (6) "Complications" (7)

"The Wait" is a song by Killing Joke. It first appeared on their eponymous 1980 debut album, Killing Joke. In 1987, Metallica covered "The Wait" on their EP, The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, and re-issued it on their 1998 compilation album, Garage Inc. An excerpt of Metallica's version appeared in the film School of Rock.