Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) Tom Waits

nighthawks at the diner of Emma's 49er, there's a rendezvous of strangers around the coffee urn tonight all the gypsy hacks, the insomniacs now the paper's been read now the waitress said eggs and sausage

The Ghosts Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

A cab combs the snake, Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare, And a solitary sailor Who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers...

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.

Army Ants Tom Waits

> The Whirligig Beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the ripples.

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

In The Neighborhood Tom Waits

Well the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan and the whinin' dog pidgeons by the steeple bell rope and the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night and there's always construction work

Metropolitan Glide Tom Waits

Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal They all know how to kick it in Cal They're playing this dope and this-a money tune Dancing baby with a 7 mile broom Things are bulging out the rafters like hell Down there

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

The Pontiac Tom Waits

Then the u-joints went out on that and the bushings and then your mother wanted to trade it in on the Tornado, so we got the Tornado. God, I hated the color of that son of a bitch.

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

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

Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Mathilda with me I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley And I'm tired of all these soldiers here No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet To go waltzing Mathilda

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

Filipino Box Spring Hog Tom Waits

Well I hung on to Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum soaked crook And a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With

Kentucky Avenue Tom Waits

Eddie graces buick got 4 bullet holes in the side Charlie De lisle sittin' at the top of an avocado tree Mrs Storm'll stab you with a steak knife if you step on her lawn I got a half pack of lucky strikes

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

Falling James in the Tahoe mud Stick around to tell us all the tale Well he fell in love with a Gun Street girl And now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail Dancing in the Birmingham jail He took

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

Romeo Is Bleeding Tom Waits

At Romero's Paint and Body They all seein' how far they can spit Well it was just another night But now they're huddled in the brake lights of a 58 Belair And listenin' to how Romeo killed a sherriff

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

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

Black Market Baby Tom Waits

She lives in a house That's way back off the road There's a man with a lantern And he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a camel through A needle In this sinking

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

Cold Water Tom Waits

Well I woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the cold water Woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the cold Police at the station And they

Take Care Of All My Children Tom Waits

a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my lord Oh, keep them together at the sundown Safe from the devil's hand You gotta make them a pillow on the

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

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

Potter's Field Tom Waits

well you can buy me a drink and i'll tell you what i seen and i'll give you a bargain from the edge of a maniac's dream that buys a black widow spider with a riddle in his yarn that's clinging to the furrow

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

Watch Her Disappear Tom Waits

Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming 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

Wrong Side Of The Road Tom Waits

put a dead cat on the railroad tracks when the wolf bains blooming by the tressel and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch and wash em down with bilge water and you say you'll never

The One That Got Away Tom Waits

Well this gigolo's jumping salty, ain't no trade out on the streets, Half past the unlucky, and the hawk's a front-row seat Dressed in full orchestration, stage-door Johnny's got to pay, And sent him home

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,

On The Other Side Of The World Tom Waits

There's a blue eyed girl with a red bow tie and a string of pearls with one good eye in a rainy town the chimney smoke will curl no one likes clowns on the other side of the world and the children know

Reeperbahn Tom Waits

Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with fools The memories are short

9th & Hennepin Tom Waits

And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos And everyone is behaving like dogs And the horses are coming down Violin Road And Dutch is dead on his feet And all the rooms they smell like diesel

9th And Hennepin Tom Waits

And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos And everyone is behaving like dogs And the horses are coming down Violin Road And Dutch is dead on his feet And all the rooms they smell like diesel

Cold Cold Ground Tom Waits

Crest fallen sidekick in an old cafe never slept with a dream before he had to go away there's a bell in the tower Uncle Ray bought a round don't worry about the army in the cold cold ground now don't

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

Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits

Well we are talking about late night and early morning low clouds With a chance of fog, chance of showers into the afternoon With variable high cloudiness and gusty winds Gusty winds at times around the

Circus Tom Waits

We put up our tent on a dark green knoll, outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel and her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' We pounded our stakes in the ground

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

Foreign Affair Tom Waits

when travelling abroad in the continental style it's my belief one must attempt to be discreet and subsequently bear in mind your transient position allows you a perspective that's unique though you'll

Burma-Shave Tom Waits

a juvenile delinquent, never learned how to behave But the copsd never think to look in Burma-Shave And the road was like a ribbon, and the moon was like a bone He didnt seem to be like any guy shed ever

The Fall Of Troy Tom Waits

> It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St.

Putnam County Tom Waits

coughin' and wheezin' And they perculated as they tossed the gravel underneath the fenders Weave home a wet, slick anaconda of a 2-lane Tire irons and a crowbars a-rattlin', with a tool box and a pony

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

Widow's Grove Tom Waits

> I met you in the saddle, rode you in the dust Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth There was something that blinded me more than the mist And the breath of the cottonwood

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

What's He Building? Tom Waits

He has no dog And he has no friends and His lawn is dying... and What about all those packages He sends. What's he building in there? With that hook light On the stairs.