Jersey Girl Tom Waits

Got no time for the corner boys Down in the street makin?all that noise Don？t want no girls on Eighth Avenue Cause tonight I？m gonna be with you Cause tonight I？

Frank`s Wild Years Tom Waits

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took

Tom Traubert`s Blues Tom Waits

dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old Bushmill's I staggered, you'd bury the dagger

Broken Bicycles Tom Waits

Broken bicycles, Old busted chains, Rusted handle bars Out in the rain.

Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Tom Waits

To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda You\'ll go waltzing Matilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab\'s parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt

Nobody Tom Waits

Nobody, nobody will ever love you The way I could love you 'Cause nobody, nobody is that strong Love's bitter sweet and life's treasures deep No one can keep a love that's gone wrong Nobody, nobody will

I'm Still Here Tom Waits

"You haven't looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for You haven't looked at me that way in years Your watch has stopped

Take Me Home Tom Waits

Take me home you silly boy put your arms around me Take me home you silly boy all the world？s not around without you I？m so sorry that I broke your heart please don？

Tom Waits Anouk

I was dreaming last night A figment of my brain On the downtown train And we had nowhere to go So we got off to take a walk In the pouring rain You said you rode it once And you would ride it again Please

All the World Is Green Tom Waits

I fell into the ocean When you became my wife I risked it all aganist the sea To have a better life Marie you're the wild blue sky And men do foolish things You turn kings into beggars And beggars

Black Market Baby Tom Waits

She lives in a house That's way back off the road There's a man with a lantern And he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a camel through A needle In this sinking

Tom Traubert`s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) Tom Waits

In your silhouette window light go To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda, You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her And the one-armed bandit

All The Time Tom Waits

> You're the tree That you can't eat the fruit from I heard horse come to ride me away I want shade And a good place to shoot from If I's a clock I'd be the end of the day You know you're not the boss

The Fall Of Troy Tom Waits

> It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St.

You Can Never Hold Back Spring Tom Waits

You can never hold back spring -Tom waits- You can never hold back spring You can be sure that I will never stop believing The blushing rose that

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

' and bummin' Around, so I started thumbin' my way Back to my old hometown You know I made quite a few miles In the first couple of days, and I Figured I'd be home in a week if my Luck held out this way

01' '55 Tom Waits

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer, Oh, Lord, let me tell you

Ol' '55 Tom Waits

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer, Oh, Lord, let me tell you

Ol' 55 Tom Waits

Well my time went so quickly I went lickety splickly out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly feeling so holy God knows I was feeling alive Now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck freeway cars

What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits

You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your preaching, that's where it begins You lot who preach restraint

That's The Way Tom Waits

That's the way the stomach rumbles That's the way the bee bumbles That's the way the needle pricks That's the way the glue sticks That's the way the potato mashes That's the way the pan flashes That's

Temptation Tom Waits

Rusted brandy in a diamond glass everything is made from dreams time is made from honey slow and sweet only the fools know what it means temptation, temptation, temptation oh, temptation, temptation, I

Burma Shave Tom Waits

slicked back she says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat how far are you going he said depends on what you mean he says i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved i guess you'd say i'm on my way

Blue Valentines Tom Waits

She sends me blue valentines All the way from Philadelphia To mark the anniversary Of someone that I used to be And it feels just like theres A warrant out for my arrest Got me checkin in my rearview

Burma-Shave Tom Waits

Said Depends on what you mean He says Im only stopping here to get some gasoline I guess Im going thataway, just as long as its paved And I guess youd say Im on my way to Burma-Shave And with her knees

If I Have To Go Tom Waits

There's nothing for me, in this world full of strangers It's all someone else's idea I don't belong here, and you can't go with me You'll only slow me down Until I send for you, don't wear your hair that

Take It With Me Tom Waits

Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me When I go Old long since gone Now way

Blind Love Tom Waits

Now you're gone, and it's hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames And I don't care if they miss me, I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home

Flowers Grave Tom Waits

Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower's grave? Who will say a prayer?

Invitation To The Blues Tom Waits

to the blues And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita Hayworth At the counter of the Schwab's drugstore You wonder if she might be single, she's a loner and likes to mingle Got to be patient

Trampled Rose Tom Waits

Long way going to Get my medicine Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren Piano from a window played Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday I found it in the street At first I did not see Lying at my feet A trampled

Union Square Tom Waits

Well time is always money for the boys on Union Square Go on and bust your ass 'til doomsday, don't forget to say your prayers Someone's riding down the backstreet, said papa got a brand new slack And

A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun Tom Waits

little dreams, pretty blue wishes Standin' there, just gettin' all wet And now there's a place off the drag Called the Gilbert Hotel And now the couple letter Burned out in the sign And it's better than

More Than Rain Tom Waits

It's more than rain that falls on our parade tonight it's more than thunder it's more than thunder it's more than a swindle this crooked card game it's more than sad times it's more than sad times none

Drunk On The Moon Tom Waits

Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift Neath the cement stroll Catch the midnight drift Forgot you and Charlie In the newspaperness Grifting hot-horse tips On who's running the best

Nirvana Tom Waits

> Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere. And it began to snow.

Good Old World (Waltz) Tom Waits

When I was a boy, the moon was a pearl the sun a yellow gold. But when I was a man, the wind blew cold the hills were upside down.

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

a hundred dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe Brought a brand new Michigan twenty-gauge He got all liquored up on that road house corn Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette A hole in the hood

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

Behind a smoke colored curtain, the girl disappeared They found out that the ring was a fake A tree born crooked, will never grow straight She sunk like a hammer into the lake A long lost letter and

Kentucky Avenue Tom Waits

Eddie graces buick got 4 bullet holes in the side Charlie De lisle sittin' at the top of an avocado tree Mrs Storm'll stab you with a steak knife if you step on her lawn I got a half pack of lucky strikes

Way Down In The Hole Tom Waits

When you walk through the garden you gotta watch your back well I beg your pardon walk the straight and narrow track if you walk with Jesus he's gonna save your soul you gotta keep the devil way down in

This One's From The Heart Tom Waits

It's got to be love, I've never felt this way. Oh baby, this one's from the heart The shadows in the road look like a railroad track. I wonder if he's (ever) really comin' back.

King Kong Tom Waits

by his enormous size And when he saw the woman He took her without question Because after all He was the King And he loved the woman He loved the way she looked And she wouldn't stop screaming But he

whistlin' Past The Graveyard Tom Waits

well i come in on a night train with an arm full of box cars on the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night and i busted up a chifforobe way out by the cocomo cooked up a mess a mulligan and got into

Opening Montage Tom Waits

[Tom Waits:] I wish I had a dollar for each time I took a chance [Crystal Gayle:] On all those two bit Romeos who counterfeit romance [Tom Waits:] Somehow always thinking of the last time I fell down

Crossroads Tom Waits

Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin; you

Downtown Train Tom Waits

Outside another yellow moon punched a hole in the nighttime, yes I climb through the window and down the street shining like a new dime the downtown trains are full with all those Brooklyn girls they try

Walking Spanish Tom Waits

He's got himself a homemade special You know his glass is full of sand And it feels just like a jaybird the way it fits into his hand He rolled a blade up in his trick towel They slap their hands against

Blow Wind Blow Tom Waits

Mary's on the black top There's a husband in the dog house In the middle of a shakedown She got quiet as a church mouose She found Raleigh's on the dashboard Sugar daddy caught a polocar Ain't no solitary

Flash Pan Hunter Tom Waits

The flash pan hunter sways with the wind His rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet way have it's own wit Each cartridge comes with a warning Beware of elaborate telescopic meats They