Romeo Is Bleeding Tom Waits

Romeo is bleeding But not so as you'd notice He's over on 18th street as usual Lookin' so hard against the hood of his car And puttin' out a cigarette in his hand For all the pachucos at the pumps

Flowers Grave Tom Waits

Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland? Are these days forever and always? And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead?

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

Potter's Field Tom Waits

drove a crooked sky he was dealin high chicago in the mud and stackin' the deck against a dragnet's eye a shivering nightstick in a miserable heap with the siren for a lullaby singing him to sleep he was bleeding

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

All the World Is Green Tom Waits

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 into kings Pretend that you owe me nothing And all the world is

Blind Love Tom Waits

me, I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home Well, I'm at the station, and I can't get on the train Must be blind love, only kind of love is

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

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Tom Waits

Well, I always play Russian Roulette in my head It's seventeen black or twenty-nine red How far from the gutter; how far from the pew I will always remember to forget about you A good man is hard to find

Little Man Tom Waits

> Sure as fire will burn There's one thing you will learn Those things you have cherished Are things that you have earned Luck is when opportunity Meets with preparation And the same is true for every

Jockey Full Of Bourbon Tom Waits

pouring rain Sixteen men on a dead man's chest And I've been drinking from a broken cup Two pairs of pants and a mohair vest I'm full of bourbon, I can't stand up Hey little bird, fly away home Your house is

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

The Part You Throw Away Tom Waits

That is the part you throw away I want that beggars eyes a winning horse A tidy Mexican divorce St.

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

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

Lullaby Tom Waits

If nothing's worth dying for tonight Your dreams are not enough What I need is love That's worth laying down my life Sing along, Just like they taught us It's soothing your mind this lullaby No heaven

Strange Weather Tom Waits

Will you take me across the Channel, London Bridge is falling down. Strange a woman tries to save What a man will try to drown. And he's the rain that they predicted, Its the forecast every time.

Road To Peace Tom Waits

seventeen dead along the road to peace Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) And the last thing that he said on earth is

Another Man's Vine Tom Waits

Bougainvilleas bloom and wind Be careful mind the strangle vines The rose is climbing over blind 'Cause the sun is on the other side The bees will find their honey The sweetest every time Around a red

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

Hoist That Rag Tom Waits

The sun is up, the world is flat Damn good address for a rat The smell of blood, the drone of flies You know what to do if the baby cries Hoist that rag! Hoist that rag! Hoist that rag!

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

Cemetery Polka Tom Waits

million during World War Two But they're tightwads and they're cheapskates And they'll never give a dime to you Auntie Mame has gone insane She lives in the doorway of an old hotel And the radio is

Watch Her Disappear Tom Waits

of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled ebony curls Moving in a yellow bedroom light The air is

Straight To The Top (Rhumba) Tom Waits

I'm going straight to the top oh yea up where the air is fresh and clean I'm going straight up to the top if you know me, you know what I mean I can't let sorrow try and pull ol' Frankie down live for

Straight To The Top (Vegas) Tom Waits

I'm going straight to the top oh yea up where the air is fresh and clean I'm going straight up to the top if you know me, you know what I mean I can't let sorrow try and pull ol' Frankie down live for

Straight To The Top Tom Waits

I'm going straight to the top oh yea up where the air is fresh and clean I'm going straight up to the top if you know me, you know what I mean I can't let sorrow try and pull ol' Frankie down live for

Foreign Affair Tom Waits

culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest the obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending the pursuit you see and never the arrest without fear of contradiction bon voyage is

What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits

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 your waist as well Should learn, for once, the way the world is

I'm Still Here Tom Waits

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 and the pond is

What's He Building? Tom Waits

What the hell is he building In there? He has subscriptions to those Magazines... He never Waves when he goes by He's hiding something from The rest of us... He's all To himself...

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

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

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.

Woe Tom Waits

Everyone would be better without me The sun is shining over city streets But in my heart the dark is dwelling It's all that I see I cry in woe Until I fall under a moving train I live my life alone in

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

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

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

Frank's Theme Tom Waits

up I promise I'll be true and just like before the band starts to play they always play your favorite tune and dream awawy when everyone's gone dream away your grey skies tooo dream away and nothing is

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

Ruby's Arms Tom Waits

i will leave behind all of my clothes, i wore when i was with you, all i need's my railroad boots, and my leather jacket, as i say goodbye to ruby's arms, although my heart is breaking, i will steal away

On A Foggy Night Tom Waits

cause the interchange Never intersected leaving me marooned Beneath a bloodshot moon All upon a foggy night, foggy night All upon a foggy night, it's kind of an abandoned road Blurred brocade collage Is

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

This One's From The Heart Tom Waits

And the brakes need adjustment on the convertible Oh baby, this one's from the heart The worm is climbin' the other color tree Robin is back against the wall; Pour myself a double sympathy Oh baby, this

Shiny Things Tom Waits

Leave me alone you big ol' moon, The light you cast is just a lighter. You're like the crow, 'cause if it goes, You're dressed to go, you guessed, I know, You'll always bring them shiny things.

The Heart Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

reachin' your peak Stoppin' on the red You're goin' on the green 'Cause tonight'll be like nothin' You've ever seen And you're barrelin' down the boulevard Lookin' for the heart of Saturday night Tell me is

Just The Right Bullets Tom Waits

There is a light in the forest There is a face in the tree I'll pull you out of the And the first one's always free You can never go hunting With just a flintlock and a hound You won't go home with a bunting

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

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

Young At Heart Tom Waits

find To be narrow mind And young at heart You can go to extremes With impossible schemes You can laugh when your dreams Fall apart at the seams And life gets more exciting With each passing day Love is