Diamonds & Gold Tom Waits

Broken glass, rusty nails where the wild violets grow Say goodbye to the railroad, the mad dogs of summer And everything that I know What some men will do here for diamonds What some men will do here for

Diamonds And Gold Tom Waits

Broken glass, rusty nails where the wild violets grow Say goodbye to the railroad, the mad dogs of summer And everything that I know What some men will do here for diamonds What some men will do

Diamonds On My Windshield Tom Waits

Well these diamonds on my windshield 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

Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For) Tom Waits

Well these diamonds on my windshield 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

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.

Heigh Ho Tom Waits

> Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig dig dig, with a shovel and a pick Dig

Two Sisters Tom Waits

Oh sister, oh sister, let's walk the seashore Bow, balance to me Oh sister, oh sister, let's walk the seashore And see the ships as they sail in oar" And I'll be true to my love if my love'll be true to

Lost In The Harbour Tom Waits

Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need wool For weaving their baby's new clothes

Bend Down The Branches Tom Waits

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) The sky's as deep as it can be Bend down the branches Close your eyes and you will see Bend down the branches You're like a willow Once you were gold We're made for bending

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

More Than Rain Tom Waits

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 of our pockets are filled with gold

Anywhere I Lay My Head Tom Waits

My head is spinning round, my heart is in my shoes, yeah I went and set the Thames on fire, oh, now I must come back down She's laughing in her sleeve boys, I can feel it in my bones Oh, but anywhere

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.

Georgia Lee Tom Waits

Close your eyes and count to ten I will got and hid but then Be sure to find me.

ASHES TO DIAMONDS Tom Cochrane

I've seen enough The next time you better stay loose There's plenty of government action in the neighborhood It's a general uprisin' See the men in gold The P.M.'

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

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

Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits

I got your letter today and 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

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

Circus Tom Waits

electric sugar And Zuzu Bolin played 'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty Tiny on the saw and he threw his head back with a mouth full of gold teeth And they played 'Lopsided heart' And 'Moon over Dog Street'

Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits

Jesus Keep me satisfied Well I don't want no Anna Zabba Don't want no Almond Joy There ain't nothing better Suitable for this boy Well it's the only thing That can pick me up Better than a cup of gold

Lucinda Tom Waits

a firefly And leaves it over there to die at the shore As I kick at the clowns at my hanging As I swing out all over the crowds I will search every face for Lucinda And she'll go off with me down the

Ain't Goin Down To The Well Tom Waits

"Well they call me William The Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers When the shadows get long I'll be dead Now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

and old leaky boat Promises are never meant to keep And I want to know the same thing I wanna know How's it going to end?

Hang Down Your Head Tom Waits

Hush a wild violet, hush a band of gold Hush you're in a story I heard somebody told Tear the promise from my heart, tear my heart today You have found another, oh baby I must go away So hang down

Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Mathilda with me I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley And I'm tired of all these soldiers here No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet To go waltzing Mathilda

Pasties And A G-String Tom Waits

Al Cohn Sharing this apartment with a telephone pole And a fish-net stocking, spike-heel shoes, Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues And the porno floor show, live nude girls, Dreamy and creamy and

First Kiss Tom Waits

been signed by Tennessee Ernie Ford And she always had saw dust in her hair And she cut two holes in the back of her dress and she had these scapular wings that were covered with feathers and electrical

Time Tom Waits

Well the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws And you’re east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches And the rain sounds

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break And the

Children's Story Tom Waits

> Once upon a time there was a poor child, with no father and no mother And everything was dead And no one was left in the whole world Everything was dead And the child went on search, day and night

Spidey's Wild Ride Tom Waits

> The smoke from the battle fish and the rain soaked through and the wheelman left the shore and barns tumbled and silos flew across fifteen miles bad road tar And big Bull Trometer hung on to the side

Nirvana Tom Waits

And it began to snow. And the bus stopped at a little cafe in the hills and the passengers entered. And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived.

Putnam County Tom Waits

jeans and store bought boots Were hunkerin' down in the dirt to lie about their lives And the places that they'd been And they suck on Coca Colas and be spittin' days work Until the moon was a stray dog

King Kong Tom Waits

loved the woman And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex And it was a bloody battle But he fought it for his woman And he climbed up a mountain And he looked around Some kind of forest With all these dinosaurs

9th & Hennepin Tom Waits

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky Like a tarp thrown all over this And the broken umbrellas like dead

9th And Hennepin Tom Waits

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky Like a tarp thrown all over this And the broken umbrellas like dead birds

Martha Tom Waits

this is old Tom Frost, And I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost.

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

Bad Liver And A Broken Heart Tom Waits

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart And I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink And I wish you'd a-known her, we were

Bottom Of The World Tom Waits

My Daddy told me, lookin back The best friend you'll have is a railroad track So when I was 13 I said, I'm rollin' my own, And I'm leaving Missouri and I'm never coming home And I'm lost And I'm lost I'm

Small Change Tom Waits

Well small change got rained on with his own .38 and nobody flinched down by the arcade and the marquise weren't weeping they went stark-raving mad and the cabbies were the only ones that really had it

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

waltzing Mathilda with me I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley And I'm tired of all these soldiers here No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet To go waltzing

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) (LP Version) Tom Waits

waltzing Mathilda with me I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley And I'm tired of all these soldiers here No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet To go

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

Mathilda with me I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley And I'm tired of all these soldiers here No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet To go waltzing Mathilda

I Can't Wait To Get Off Work Tom Waits

I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars, I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk And a manic mechanic on cars.

Kommienezuspadt Tom Waits

[Pretend German] Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt And we can't be

Barcarolle Tom Waits

A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone into town To get candy and

In The Neighborhood Tom Waits

Well the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan and the whinin' dog pidgeons by the steeple bell rope and the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night and there's always construction work

Shiver Me Timbers Tom Waits

I'm leavin' my fam'ly And leavin' my friends My body's at home But my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines On a new front page sky My tears are salt water And the moon's full and high