High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Waiting for the Worms" (working title Follow the Worms) is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. It is preceded by "Run Like Hell" and followed by "Stop".At this point in the album, story protagonist, Pink, has lost all hope and has let bad ideas, the "worms", control his thoughts. In his hallucination, he is a fascist dictator who spreads hatred, with the promise that his followers would see "Britannia rule again" and "send our coloured cousins home again," and announces he is "waiting to turn on the showers and fire the ovens." The count-in is Eins, zwei, drei, hammer - German for "one, two, three, hammer..."