Shake It Tom Waits

Stolen clouds, dark beauty Cold gun, wild rose Night clerk, door closed Lie down baby Your love is a faucet Called China, cell phone Chun King, not home You know I feel like a preacher waving a gun around Shake

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

LowDown Tom Waits

> She's a crooked Sheriff in a real straight town She opened the door shake shake the lights go down Clover honey and the Jimson Weed Red leather skirt way up above her knees Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown

Walk Away Tom Waits

need a way to turn around the bend She said I want to walk away and start over again There are things I've done I can't erase I want to look in the mirror see another face I said, "never", but I'm doing it

Putnam County Tom Waits

I guess things were always kinda quiet around Putnam County Kinda shy and sleepy as it clung to the skirts of the 2-lane That was stretched out like an asphalt dance floor Where all the old timers in bib

All The Time Tom Waits

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 of me You can lift your skirt You can shake

Step Right Up Tom Waits

how do we do it?

Make It Rain Tom Waits

You know the story, (People) Here it comes again.

Rains On Me Tom Waits

> This is how the world will be Everywhere I go it rains on me Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea Everywhere I go it rains on me I went down into the valley to pray Everywhere I go it rains on

House Where Nobody Lives Tom Waits

There's a house on my block That's abandoned and cold Folks moved out of it a Long time ago And they took all their things And they never came back Looks like it's haunted With the windows all cracked

You Can't Unring A Bell Tom Waits

You can't unring a bell, junior It'll cost ya to get out of this one, junior Cause he's got big plans That don't include you take it like a man cause you, you can't unring a bell, sucker you'll need an

The Pontiac Tom Waits

Then the u-joints went out on that and the bushings and then your mother wanted to trade it in on the Tornado, so we got the Tornado. God, I hated the color of that son of a bitch.

It's Over Tom Waits

have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the colour of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed It's always me whenever there's trouble The world does nothing but turn And the ring it

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

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

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

wrote 'good bye' in the dust on the hood They found a map of Missouri Lipstick on the glass They must of left in the middle of the nite And I want to know the same thing Everyone wants to know How's it

Tell It To Me Tom Waits

They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Tell me am I foolish, I don't believe these stories And I'll be coming home soon Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it

Picture In A Frame Tom Waits

Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Ever since I put your picture In a frame.

Little Boy Blue Tom Waits

render You legal and tender When you used to Send her your promises boy A dill or a dollar Unbutton your collar Come out and holler Out all of your noise Little boy blue Come blow your top Cut it

I'll Be Gone Tom Waits

shoot all the lights in the cafe and in the morning I'll be gone I bet 1000 dollars I have a french companion I tie myself below the deck I pull the rope around my neck and in the morning I'll be gone it

Hang On St Christopher Tom Waits

and the oil Buckle down the rumble seat let the radiator boil got an overhead downshift and a two dollar grill got an 85 cabin on an 85 hill Hang on st. christopher on the passenger side open it

Poor Edward Tom Waits

On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman's face or a young girl?

Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream? Tom Waits

I can see clearly nothing as clear I keep falling apart ev'ry year Let's take a hammer to it There's no glamour in it Is there any way out of this dream I'm as blue as i can possibly be Is there someone

Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For) Tom Waits

these tears from heaven Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate I got a steel train in the rain And the wind bites my cheek through the wing And it's these late nights and this freeway flying It

Diamonds On My Windshield Tom Waits

And these tears from heaven Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate I got a steel train in the rain And the wind bites my cheek through the wing And it's these late nights and this freeway flying It

Little Man Tom Waits

earned Luck is when opportunity Meets with preparation And the same is true for every generation Little man As you climb upon my knee The whole future lies in thee Little man Little man Never hurry, take it

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

Train Song Tom Waits

Louis On the Kansas City line and I drunk up all my money that I borrowed every time and I fell down at the derby and now the night's black as a crow It was a train that took me away from here but a train

Cold Water Tom Waits

like me Well he seems Seen them fellows with the card board signs Scrapin up a little $ To buy a bottle of wine Pregnant women and The Vietnam vets I say Beggin on the freeway Bout as hard as it

Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits

I miss you all so much here I cant wait to see you all and Im counting the days here I still believe that theres gold at the end of the world And Ill come home to Illinois on the day after tomorrow It

I Wish I Was In New Orleans Tom Waits

Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams, Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen To that tenor saxophone

16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six Tom Waits

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six and a Black Crow snuck through a hole in the sky so I spent all my buttons on an old pack mule and I made me a ladder from a pawn shop marimba and I leaned it

Danny Says Tom Waits

Gotta go to Idaho But we can't go surfin' Cause it's twenty below Sound check's at 5:02 Record stores and interviews Oh, but I can't wait To be with you tomorrow Baby Oho-ho-ho, we got nowhere to go And it

San Diego Serenade Tom Waits

bind I never spoke "I love you" 'til I cursed you in vain I never felt my heart strings until I nearly went insane I never saw the east coast until I moved to the west I never saw the moonlight until it

Shiny Things Tom Waits

The things a crow puts in its nest, They're always things it finds that shine. And how he'll find a shiny dime, Silver twine, from a valentine. The crows all bring them shiny things.

Bad Liver And A Broken Heart Tom Waits

ain't romantic, it's intimidating as hell, And some guy's trying to sell me a watch And so I'll meet you at the bottom of a bottle of bargain Scotch I got me a bottle and a dream, it's so maudlin it

Crossroads Tom Waits

The more of them magics you use, the more bad days you have without them So it comes down finally to all your days being bad without the bullets It's magics or nothing Time to stop chippying around and

World Keeps Turning Tom Waits

On our anniversary There'll be someone else where you used to be The world don't care and yet it clings to me The moon is gold and silvery Who knows where the sidewalk ends Well the road will turn and

I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You Tom Waits

Well if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it, Before the evening's gone away, I think that we could make it, And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

On The Other Side Of The World Tom Waits

your own and a crow turns into a girl on the other side of the world and she tastes like the sea and she's waiting for me in the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose and he gave it

Hold On Tom Waits

They hung a sign up in out town "if you live it up, you won't live it down" So, she left Monte Rio, son Just like a bullet leaves a gun With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips She went and took that California

Widow's Grove Tom Waits

where I'll be Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as you fell And you grabbed then shyly held me, against the stone cold well In your hand was a glass, you held the ice against the night And it

Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I've got what I paid for now See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda, You'll go waltzing

I'll Take New York Tom Waits

I'll tip the newsboy I'll get a shine I'll ride this dream to the end of the line I'm goin places I'll take a ride Up to the Riverside I'll take NY I'll let it happen I'll pop the cork tear off the wrappin

Clang Boom Steam Tom Waits

It went clang, boom and steam

Puttin' On The Dog Tom Waits

dog tonight Putting on, putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog Putting on the dog We'll flip, we'll follow and fly Just do it

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

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 But you know it

Metropolitan Glide Tom Waits

Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal They all know how to kick it in Cal They're playing this dope and this-a money tune Dancing baby with a 7 mile broom Things are bulging out the rafters like hell Down there

Barber Shop Tom Waits

for their done you know the hair's gettin longer and the skirts gettin shorter you can get a cheaper haircut if you wanna cross the border now if your mama saw you smokin why she'd kick your ass put it

Filipino Box Spring Hog Tom Waits

the waist With my fierce black hound And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road Fill it