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

Tell It To Me Tom Waits

> They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Tell me am I

Virginia Avenue Tom Waits

I'll just get on back into my short, make it back to the fort Sleep off all the crazy lizards inside of my brain.

Puttin' On The Dog Tom Waits

> You gotta stomp, whistle and scream You gotta wake right up in your dreams You gotta jump, wheel and drive Keep that feeling alive You gotta kick, holler and shout I'm gonna tell you what it's all

Fumblin' With The Blues Tom Waits

Friday left me fumblin' with the blues And it's hard to win when you always lose Because the nightspots spend your spirit Beat your head against the wall Two dead ends and you've still got to choose You

Sea Of Love Tom Waits

Come with me my love to the sea The sea of love I want to tell you How much I love you I'm drowning in a sea of love Do you remember the night we met?

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

Green Grass Tom Waits

Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down in the green grass Remember when you loved me Come closer don't be shy Stand beneath a rainy sky The moon is over the rise Think

Get Behind The Mule Tom Waits

Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp With a horrid little pistol and a lariat She's goin to the bottom And she's goin down the drain Said she wasn't big enough to carry it She got to get behind the

Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while, But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear That I cry when I'm seeing you smile.

Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while, But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear That I cry when I'm seeing you smile.

Wrong Side Of The Road Tom Waits

you say you'll never snitch take the buttons from a yellow jacket the feaather from a buzzard and thr blood from a bounty hunters cold black heart catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass tell

Broken Bicycles Tom Waits

Somebody must Have an orphanage for these things that nobody Wants any more September\'s reminding July It\'s time to be saying ... good-bye. Summer is gone, But our love will remain.

Mr. Siegal Tom Waits

burn this hotel down. you got to tell me brave captain, why are the wicked so strong, how do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on. well i dropped thirty grand on the nugget

Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits

leaves And my plane will touch down on the day after tomorrow I close my eyes every nite and I dream that I can hold you They fill us full of lies, everyone buys 'bout what it means to be a soldier I

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?

01' '55 Tom Waits

Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Ol' '55 Tom Waits

Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.

Ol' 55 Tom Waits

Well my time went so quickly I went lickety splickly out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly feeling so holy God knows I was feeling alive Now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck freeway cars

If I Have To Go Tom Waits

> And if I have to go, will you remember me? Will you find someone else, while I'm away?

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

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

Well you see I happened to be back on the east coast A few years back tryin' to make me a buck Like everybody else, well you know Times get hard and well I got down on my luck And I got tired of just roamin

The Briar And The Rose Tom Waits

t know how long it has been but I was born in Brennan Glen and near the end of spring there grows a briar and a rose I picked the rose one early morn but I pricked my finger on a thorn the y？

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

Tango Till They're Sore Tom Waits

Well ya play that Tarantella All the hounds they start to roar And the boys all go to hell Then the Cubans hit the floor And they drive along the pipeline They tango till they're sore They take apart their

whistlin' Past The Graveyard Tom Waits

chifforobe way out by the cocomo cooked up a mess a mulligan and got into a fight CHORUS: whistlin past the graveyard steppin on a crack i'm a mean motherhubbard papa one eyed jack you propably seen me

Never Let Go Tom Waits

Well, ring the bell backwards and bury the axe Fall down on your knees in the dirt I'm tied to the mast between water and wind Believe me, you'll never get hurt Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's

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.

Depot, Depot Tom Waits

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 title to

Hang On St Christopher Tom Waits

up tonight the devil can ride hang on st. christopher with a barrel house dog kick me up mt. baldy throw me out in the fog tear a hole in the jack pot drive a stake through his heart do a 100 on

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

know the same thing Everyone wants to know How's it going to end?

What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits

You 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

Shiver Me Timbers Tom Waits

And many before me Who've been called by the sea To be up in the crow's nest And singin' my say Shiver me Timbers 'Cause I'm a-sailin' away The fog's liftin' And the sand's shiftin' and I'm driftin' on

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

Cold Water Tom Waits

snakes and the bugs Well the stores are open But I ain't got no money I ain't got no money Stores are open but I Ain't got no money Ain't got no money Well I ain't Found an old dog And he seems to

Warm Beer And Cold Women Tom Waits

into tonight that's just how it's been All these double knit strangers with gin and vermouth And recycled stories in the Naugahyde booths With the platinum blonds, tobacco brunettes I'll be drinkin' to

Danny Says Tom Waits

Danny says we gotta go 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,

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

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

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see, I had a beer and now I hear you calling out

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

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

The Heart Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

your pockets are jinglin' And you see the lights You get all tinglin' cause you're cruisin' with a 6 And you're looking for the heart of Saturday night Then you comb your hair Shave your face Tryin' to

Please Call Me, Baby Tom Waits

The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs But I just know there's got to be more So please call

Ice Cream Man Tom Waits

Baby, missed me in the alley, baby, don't you fret Come back around and don't forget, When you're tired and you're hungry and you want something cool, Got something better than a swimming pool 'Cause

It's Over Tom Waits

> You must 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

Make It Rain Tom Waits

I have no pride, I have no shame You gotta to make it rain, Since you gone Deep inside it hurts I’m just another sad Guest on this earth I want to believe in the Mercy of the world again Make it rain

Blue Valentines Tom Waits

She sends me blue valentines All the way from Philadelphia To mark the anniversary Of someone that I used to be And it feels just like theres A warrant out for my arrest Got me checkin in my rearview

Please Call Me Baby Tom Waits

Evenin' fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spitted You slammed out the door If this is love, we're crazy 'Cause we fight like cats and dogs I just know there's got to be more Please

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

This One's From The Heart Tom Waits

It's got to be love, I've never felt this way. Oh baby, this one's from the heart The shadows in the road look like a railroad track. I wonder if he's (ever) really comin' back.