We're All Mad Here Tom Waits

You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the footsteps of the dead We're all mad here As the devil sticks his flag into the mud

Diamonds And Gold Tom Waits

Broken glass, rusty nails where the wild violets grow Say goodbye to the railroad, the mad dogs of summer And everything that I know What some men will do here for diamonds What some men will do

Diamonds & Gold Tom Waits

Broken glass, rusty nails where the wild violets grow Say goodbye to the railroad, the mad dogs of summer And everything that I know What some men will do here for diamonds What some men will do here for

Singapore Tom Waits

We sail tonight for Singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny Moor, took off to the land of Nod Drank with all the Chinamen, walked the sewers of Paris I danced along a colored

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

Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits

I got your letter today and I miss you all so much here I cant wait to see you all and Im counting the days here I still believe that theres gold at the end of the world And Ill come home to Illinois

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

Small Change Tom Waits

Well small change got rained on with his own .38 and nobody flinched down by the arcade and the marquise weren't weeping they went stark-raving mad and the cabbies were the only ones that really had it

Blow Wind Blow Tom Waits

There's a husband in the dog house In the middle of a shakedown She got quiet as a church mouose She found Raleigh's on the dashboard Sugar daddy caught a polocar Ain't no solitary tap dance way down here

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

Swordfishtrombone Tom Waits

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took

Frank`s Wild Years Tom Waits

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took

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,

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

Jersey Girl Tom Waits

ll take you on all the rides Down the shore everything？s all right You with your baby on a Saturday night Don？t you know that my dreams come true when I？m walkin?

Big Black Mariah Tom Waits

come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black 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

Take Care Of All My Children Tom Waits

Oh, take care of all my children Don't let 'em wander and roam Oh, take care of all of my children For I don't know when I'm comin' back home You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name nail

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

Lost In The Harbour Tom Waits

Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need wool For weaving their baby's new clothes

Eyeball Kid Tom Waits

Well Zenora Bariella And Coriander Pyle They had sixteen children In the usual style They had a curio museum And they had no guile All they ever wanted Was a show biz child So on the 7th of Dec

Broken Bicycles Tom Waits

Broken Bicycles, Don\'t tell my folks; There\'s all those playing cards Pinned to the spokes, Laid down like skeletons out on the lawn. One wheel won\'t turn While the other has gone.

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.

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?

Town With No Cheer Tom Waits

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier there'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander with newfangled

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

Hoist That Rag Tom Waits

Well, we stick our fingers in the ground, heave and turn the world around Smoke is blacking out the sun At night I pray and clean my gun The cracked bell rings as the ghost bird sings and the gods go

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

Rain Dogs Tom Waits

Inside a broken clock, splashing the wine with all the rain dogs Taxi, we'd rather walk, huddle a doorway with the rain dogs For I am a rain dog, too Oh, how we danced and we swallowed the night For it

Road To Peace Tom Waits

soldiers So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace "And this is our land we

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

that cab where I Knew it'd be warm at the wheel Well at the wheel sat a big man I'd have to say he must of weighed 210 The way he stuck out a big hand and Said with a grin "Big Joe's the name And this here

9th & Hennepin Tom Waits

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky Like a tarp thrown all over this And the broken umbrellas like dead

9th And Hennepin Tom Waits

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky Like a tarp thrown all over this And the broken umbrellas like dead birds

Saving All My Love For You Tom Waits

it's too early for the circus, it's too late for the bars, no one's sleepin' but the paperboys, and no one in this town is makin' any noise, but the dogs and the milkmen and me. the girls around here all

Martha Tom Waits

this is old Tom Frost, And I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost.

Heigh Ho Tom Waits

> Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig dig dig, with a shovel and a pick Dig

Hang On St Christopher Tom Waits

passenger side open it up tonight the devil can ride hang on st. christopher now don't let me go get to me reno got to bring it in low put my baby on the flat car got to burn down the caboose get 'em all

If I Have To Go Tom Waits

There's nothing for me, in this world full of strangers It's all someone else's idea I don't belong here, and you can't go with me You'll only slow me down Until I send for you, don't wear your hair that

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

LowDown Tom Waits

lights go down Clover honey and the Jimson Weed Red leather skirt way up above her knees Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown She's a gone lost dirt road There ain't no way back I been told Well she's a story they all

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

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

Make It Rain Tom Waits

She took all my money And my best friend. You know the story, (People) Here it comes again.

I Never Talk To Strangers Tom Waits

that's why you're drinkin in this bar well only suckers fall in love with perfect strangers it always takes one to know one stranger maybe we're just wiser now and been around the block so many times that we

MAD MAD WORLD Tom Cochrane

said Someone else had a different view I watched the whole thing there Unfold upon my tv screen "A new world order is on its way" Well pass the popcorn please You don't mean to tell me No one here

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

Woe Tom Waits

I've never been myself Lived for someone else In the dark I dig into my flesh I'm calling out, I'm calling out I'm crying out for my death I cry in woe Why am I even here?

Army Ants Tom Waits

If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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.

Goin\' Out West Tom Waits

Well I\'m goin\' out west Where the wind blows tall \'Cause Tony Franciosa Used to date my ma They got some money out there They\'re giving it away I\'m gonna do what I want Do what I want And

Shiny Things Tom Waits

The crows all bring them shiny things. Leave me alone you big ol' moon, The light you cast is just a lighter.