Watch Her Disappear Tom Waits

Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of youAnd from a window across the lawn I watched you undressWearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hairThat rose in strangled ebony curlsM...

Hold On Tom Waits

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 trip Well, the moon was gold, her

I Beg Your Pardon Tom Waits

I'm just a scarecrow with out you baby please don't disappear I beg your pardon dear I gotta a bottle full of trumpet a hatbox full of drum I beg your pardon dear I got upset I lost my head I didn't mean

Little Boy Blue Tom Waits

Come blow your horn The dish ran away with the spoon Home again home again Saturday morn Never gets up before noon She used to render You legal and tender When you used to Send her your promises

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

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

Yesterday Is Here Tom Waits

you'll have to say goodbye all our dreams come true baby up ahead and it's out where your memories lie well the road's out before me and the moon is shining bright what I want you to remember as I disappear

Tom Waits Anouk

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 take me with you Tom

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

Please Wake Me Up Tom Waits

I put my chips on her shoulder running in the carnival time she bought the things that I told her they made her eyes sparkle and shine together we'll ring in the new year I know that she'll be my queen

Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) Tom Waits

The bats are in the belfry the dew is on the moor where are the arms that held me and pledged her love before and pledged her love before Chorus It's such a sad old feeling the fields are soft and green

Innocent When You Dream (78) Tom Waits

The bats are in the belfry the dew is on the moor where are the arms that held me and pledged her love before and pledged her love before Chorus It's such a sad old feeling the fields are soft and green

Invitation To The Blues Tom Waits

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula, Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelors She's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes, Well, it's just an invitation

Reeperbahn Tom Waits

Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with fools The memories are short

Clang Boom Steam Tom Waits

Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind But the train that took My baby... It went clang, boom and steam

Good Old World (Waltz) Tom Waits

I've got's a pocket full of flowers from my grave But now summer is gone I remember it best Back in the good old world I remember when, she held my hand and we walked home alone in the rain how pretty her

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

Poor Edward Tom Waits

twin And at night she spoke to him Things heard only in hell But they were impossible to separate Chained together for life Finally the bell tolled his doom He took a suite of rooms And hung himself and her

Little Drop of Poison Tom Waits

with a little drop of poison Nobody knows they're lining up to go insane I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter But I feel much cleaner after it rains She left in the fall, that's her

Alice Tom Waits

It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice I disappear

First Kiss Tom Waits

in the back And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg was mounted up front on the hood And she had an Easter bonnet that had been signed by Tennessee Ernie Ford And she always had saw dust in her

Burma Shave Tom Waits

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 to burma shave and her

Lucinda 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 be dead Now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar Her skin

King Kong Tom Waits

> They shot him down They shot him down They thought he was a monster But he was the King They came to his island And they brought her with them They wanted to get his picture But they were surprised

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

Dead And Lovely Tom Waits

She was a middle class girl She was in over her head She thought she would stand up in the deep end He had a bullet proof smile He had money to burn She thought she had the moon in her pocket But now she's

The Fall Of Troy Tom Waits

Out the door and through the woods There is a world where nothing grows It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place Of someone missing at the table Mom's hair sprayed tight And her face in her hands

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

Mr. Siegal Tom Waits

ready, and go man go, i said tell me mr. siegel, how do i get out of here. well willard's knocked out on a bottle of heat, drivin' dangerous curves across the dirty sheets, he said man you ought to see her

Coney Island Baby Tom Waits

Every night she comes To take me out to dreamland When I'm with her, I'm the richest Man in the town She's a rose, she's the pearl She's the spin on my world All the stars make their wishes on her eyes

Lucky Day Tom Waits

The prettiest girl In all the world Is in a little Spanish town But I left her for a Bonnie lass And I told her I'd see her around But that Bonnie lass And her heart of glass Would not hold a candle To

Poor Little Lamb Tom Waits

Poor little lamb now his fleece is all cold Wakes up in the morning alone Poor little lamb knows what's coming Life is an empty cup Poor little lamb watch your shoulder Coyote's waiting out there Nobody

Return Of Jackie & Judy Tom Waits

Jackie is a bookie, Judy's taking loans They both came up to New York Just to see the Ramones Oh-yeah And oh, I don't know why she wrote that letter Oh no, oh no Oh I don't know why, We won't forget her

Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore, And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you, and then I'll be gone.

Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore, And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you, and then I'll be gone.

The Heart Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

Well you gassed her up Behind the wheel With your arm around your sweet one In your Oldsmobile Barrelin' down the boulevard You're looking for the heart of Saturday night And you got paid on Friday And

Circus Tom Waits

We put up our tent on a dark green knoll, outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel and her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' We pounded our stakes in the ground

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

click-clack tapping of a blind man's cane He was pulling into Baker on a New Year's Eve One eye on a pistol and the other on the door One eye on a pistol and the other on the door Miss Charlotte took her

Rain Dogs Tom Waits

minds The rum pours strong and thin, beat out the dustman with the rain dogs Aboard a shipwreck train, give my umbrella to the rain dogs For I am a rain dog, too Oh, how we danced with the Rose of Tralee Her

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

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

What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits

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 and watch

Georgia Lee Tom Waits

Cold was the night, hard was the ground They found her in a small grove of trees Lonesome was the place where Georgia was found She's too young to be out On the street. Why wasn't God watching?

Dog Door Tom Waits

name is happy Well this is me Don't get close to me now I could be a shopkeeper We'll call 'em She 'bout six foot four Now she's a wrecking-ball Back over here together She brought the bad weather with her

The Ghosts Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

Her rhinestone-studded moniker says, "Irene" As she wipes the wisps of dishwater blonde from her eyes And the Texaco beacon burns on, The steel-belted attendant with a 'Ring and Valve Special'...

On The Other Side Of The World Tom Waits

will curl no one likes clowns on the other side of the world and the children know she'll never let me go. there's a one legged priest that tangos with the farmers wife Beauty and the beast is taking her

Pony Tom Waits

And I hope my Pony I hope my Pony I hope my Pony Knows the way back home I run my race with burnt face Jake Gave him a Manzanita cross I lived on nothin But dreams and train smoke Somehow my watch

Depot, Depot Tom Waits

I ain't coming, I ain't going My confusion is showing Outside the midnight wind is blowing Sixth Avenue I'm gonna paint myself blue At the depot I watch the taxis pull up and idle I can't claim

God's Away On Business Tom Waits

I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby, Let her ring, let her ring God's away, God's away, God's away on Business. Business...

'Til The Money Runs Out Tom Waits

scarlet gave him twenty seven stitches in his head, with a pint of green chartruse ain't nothin' seems right, you buy the sunday paper on a saturday night. can't you hear the thunder someone stole my watch