Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

I'm singing this song, it's time it was sungI've been putting it off for a while,But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clearThat I cry when I'm seeing you smile.So goodbye, so long, the ro...

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. So goodbye, so long, t...

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

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

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.

Little Drop of Poison Tom Waits

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 picture

Old Boyfriends Tom Waits

Old Boyfriends, Lost in the pocket of your overcoat, Like burned out lite bulbs on a Ferris Wheel. Old Boy friends, You remember the kinds of cars they drove, Parking in an orange grove.

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

John's wood Soaking day-old bread in kerosene Well he was blue as a robin's egg and brown as a hog He's staying out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired Out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

Behind a smoke colored curtain, the girl disappeared They found out that the ring was a fake A tree born crooked, will never grow straight She sunk like a hammer into the lake A long lost letter and and old

Kentucky Avenue Tom Waits

some goose neck risers That eucalyptus is a hunchback, there's a wind up from the south Let me tie you up with kite string and I'll show you the scabs on my knee Watch out for the broken glass, put your shoes

Pasties And A G-String Tom Waits

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp, I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town, Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground Bazanti bootin

Altar Boy Tom Waits

> He's an ol' altar boy Lying out there in the street He's an ol' alter boy Bound up in leather and chains That's why I'm feeling so blue I'm an old altar boy What about you?

Road To Peace Tom Waits

> Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old, He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.

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

Good Old World (Waltz) Tom Waits

But now that I have gone from here there's no place I'd rather be than to float my chances on the tide Back in the good old world.

The One That Got Away Tom Waits

measures him for a deep-six holiday, The stiff is froze, the case is closed on the one that got away Now Jim Crow's directing traffic with them cemetery blues, With them peculiar-looking trousers, them old

The Black Rider Tom Waits

Come on a long with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Lay down in the web of the black spider I'll drink your blood like wine So come on in It ain't no sin Take off your skin And dance around your

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

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

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

Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Mathilda, You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old

Back In The Crowd Tom Waits

And if you don't want my love don't make me stay There's a battle going on between the blue and grey And if you don't want my love don't make me stay Take back your name Take back these wings Take my picture

I Wish I Was In New Orleans Tom Waits

me home And I can hear the band begin When the Saints Go Marching In, And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there I'll drink you under the table, be red-nosed, go for walks, The old

Big Black Mariah Tom Waits

Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah, I seen the big black Ford Well he's all boxed up on a red belle dame Hunted Black Johnny with a blind man's cane A yellow bullet with a rag out in the wind An old

A Sight For Sore Eyes Tom Waits

my new car well it's bought and it's payed for parked outside of the bar and hey barkeeper what's keepin you keep pourin drinks for all these palookas hey you know what i thinks that we toast to the old

Broken Bicycles Tom Waits

Broken bicycles, Old busted chains, Rusted handle bars Out in the rain.

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

You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old

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

You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old

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

Mathilda, You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old

Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Tom Waits

\'ll go waltzing Matilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab\'s parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open And I\'m down on my knees tonight Old

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?

Barcarolle Tom Waits

a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone into town To get candy and we are alone in the house here And your eyes fall down on me And I belong only to you The water is filling my shoes

Tom Traubert`s Blues Tom Waits

You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open, And I'm down on my knees tonight Old

Pony Tom Waits

I've seen it all boys I've been all over Been everywhere in the Whole wide world I rode the high line With old blind Darby I danced real slow With Ida Jane I was full of wonder When I left Murfreesboro

Picking Up After You Tom Waits

bargained for this Once more you never cared about me Why don't you get your own place So you can live like you do And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you Take all your relatives And all of your shoes

All the World Is Green Tom Waits

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 green We can bring back the old

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

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

Shake It Tom Waits

baby Shake it, shake it, shake it now Shake it, shake it, shake it baby Shake it, shake it, shake it now Outside, it's damp Put a towel on that lamp You look hot in this light I can love you all night Shoes

Two Sisters Tom Waits

and all o' his land" And I'll be true to my love if my love'll be true to me Sometimes she sank and sometimes she swam Bow, balance to me Sometimes she sank and sometimes she swam Until she came to the old

Walking Spanish Tom Waits

a jaybird the way it fits into his hand He rolled a blade up in his trick towel They slap their hands against the wall You never trip, you never stumble He's walking Spanish down the hall Slip him a picture

Lucky Day Tom Waits

day Tell the boys back home I'm doing just fine I left my troubles and woe So sing about me For I can't come home I've many more miles to go Why, there's Miss Kelsey You taught dance at our school And old

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

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' and bummin' Around, so I started thumbin' my way Back to my old

Take It With Me Tom Waits

Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me When I go Old long since gone Now way

Home I'll Never Be Tom Waits

love him (just like I love him) I want you to do (I want you to do) Just the same for him (just the same for him, yeah) Well the worms eat away but don't worry watch the wind So I left Montana on an old

On The Road Tom Waits

love him (just like I love him) I want you to do (I want you to do) Just the same for him (just the same for him, yeah) Well the worms eat away but don't worry watch the wind So I left Montana on an old

Singapore Tom Waits

We sail tonight for Singapore, don't fall asleep while you're ashore Cross your heart and hope to die when you hear the children cry Let marrow bone and cleaver choose while making feet for children shoes

Martha Tom Waits

Operator, number, please: it's been so many years Will she remember my old voice while I fight the tears? Hello, hello there, is this Martha?