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

Red Shoes By The Drugstore Tom Waits

She wore red shoes by the news-stand As the rain splashed the nickel Spilled like chablis along the midway There's a little blue jay In a red dress, on a sad night One straw in a root-beer A compact with

Grapefruit Moon Tom Waits

Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me. Heard that tune, and now I'm pining, honey, can't you see?

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

I'll Shoot The Moon Tom Waits

I'll shoot the moon Right out of the sky For you baby I'll be the pennies On your eyes For you babyI want to take you Out to the fair Here's a red rose Ribbon for your hairI'll shoot the moon Right out

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

A Sight For Sore Eyes Tom Waits

hey sight for sore eyes it's a long time no see workin hard hardly workin hey man you know me water under the bridge didya see my new car well it's bought and it's payed for parked outside of the bar and

Baby Gonna Leave Me Tom Waits

Well I stood on the corner Until my feet got wet I stood by the faucet Till the sink filled up I stood by the window Until the moon came up My baby's bought a ticket Long as my clothes line Na na na na

Rosie Tom Waits

Well I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn Nobody's up except the moon and me, And a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree All that you left me was a melody. Rosie, why do you evade?

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

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

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

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

Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits

liar liar with your pants on fire, white spades hangin' on the telephone wire, gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line, you'll never recognize yourself on heartattack and vine.

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

November Tom Waits

No shadow no stars no moon no cars November it only believes in a pile of dead leaves and a moon that's the color of bone No prayers for November to linger longer stick your spoon in the wall we'll slaughter

Jitterbug Boy Tom Waits

Well, I'm a jitterbug boy, by the shoe-shine Resting on my laurels and my hardys too Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift Once upon a time I was in show-biz too I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers

New Coat Of Paint Tom Waits

Let's put a new coat of paint On this lonesome old town Set em' up, we'll be knockin' 'em down You wear a dress Baby I'll a tie We'll laugh at that old bloodshot moon In that burgundy sky All our scribbled

Midnight Lullaby Tom Waits

You can burn the midnight oil with me as long as you will Stare out at the moon upon the windowsill, and dream...

Clap Hands Tom Waits

Sane, sane, they're all insane, fireman's blind, the conductor is lame A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands,

Big In Japan Tom Waits

I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But heh I'm big in

Come On Up To The House Tom Waits

Well the moon is broken And the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see Is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your cryin don't do no good Come on up to

Yesterday Is Here Tom Waits

If you want money in your pocket and a top hat on your head a hot meal on your table and a blanket on your bed well today is grey skies tomorrow is tears you'll have to wait til yesterday is here

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?

Return Of Jackie & Judy Tom Waits

(The Ramones) (Originally by The Ramones) Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt They went down to the Mudd Club And they both got drunk Oh-yeah Jackie is a bookie, Judy's taking loans They both came up to New

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

Lowside Of The Road Tom Waits

I'm on a black elevator Goin down Little Joe from Kokomo It rattles to the ground The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed Your rollin over to the Lowside of the road.

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.

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

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

Top Of The Hill Tom Waits

Stop and get me on the ride up (uh-huh-huh) To the top ... (Can we have a little more on my voice?)

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

God's Away On Business Tom Waits

The ship is sinking There's leak, there's leak, In the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who are the ones that we kept in charge?

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

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

First Kiss Tom Waits

She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors and a sewing machine 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

Hold On Tom Waits

moon was gold, her Hair like wind She said don't look back just Come on Jim (Chorus) Oh you got to Hold on, Hold on You got to hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right here You gotta hold on

Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of your Love) Tom Waits

Lazy trip to heaven on the wings of your love Banana moon is shining in the sky, Feel like I'm in heaven when you're with me Know that I'm in heaven when you smile, Though we're stuck here on the

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

I Wish I Was In New Orleans Tom Waits

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 calling me home And I can hear the

On A Foggy Night Tom Waits

It was upon a foggy night, an abandoned road In a twilight mirror mirage With no indication Of any kind of service station Or an all night garage, I was misinformed I was misdirected 'cause the interchange

Metropolitan Glide Tom Waits

roll and moan 29 gypsies in a Cadillac stoned Turn off the ringer on your cellular phone Whip the air like a Rainbow Trout Drag your tail pipe till you bottom out Dothe Metropolitan Glide Dothe Metropolitan

Better Off Without A Wife Tom Waits

Oh it's just kind of little anthem here All my friends are married Every Tom and Dick and Harry You must be strong to go it alone Here's to the bachelors and the Bowery bums And those who feel that they're

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

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

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

No One Knows I'm Gone Tom Waits

Hell above and Heaven below All the trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet under ground The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I'm gone Live me golden tell

Jayne's Blue Wish Tom Waits

> The sky holds all our wishes The dish ran away with the spoon Chimney smoke ties the roofs to the sky There's a hole overhead It's only the moon Will there ever be a tree Grown from the seeds I've

Burma Shave Tom Waits

licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through he was a

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