Тексты песен «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' and bummin'...

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Black Market Baby 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...

(Tom Waits/K. Brennan) Take an eye for an eye Take a tooth for a tooth Just like they say in the Bible Never leave a trace or forget a face Of any man at the table When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger Sharp enough...

Now you're gone, and it's hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames And I don't care if they miss 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...

Mary's on the black top 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...

Blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed And blue skies shine on my face Give me another woman to take her place Ain't got no money, cupboards are bare No cigarettes and the kids got nothing to...

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 there's A warrant out for my arrest Got me checkin in my rearview mirror And Im...

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 mirror And I'm...

(Alexander "Skip" Spence) Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet in the water, weeping in the sun Books of Moses, got some splinters didn't you Books of Moses, brought me right here back to you Flaming heart, ain't...

Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders Of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks And the scar on it's belly pulled a stranger passing through He was a juvenile...

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 lost at the...

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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 mirror And I'm...

Broken bicycles, Old busted chains, With busted handle bars Out in the rain. Somebody must Have an orphanage for All these things that nobody Wants any more September's reminding July It's time to be saying good-bye...

Burma Shave licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through he was a...

I stood on the roof, stood toward dark To get a better look at the Fledderjons' lawn Big sharp pistols, ammo too Nothing but books about World War II Rottweiler, Dobermann, a Pinkerton guard I ain't allowed in Buzz...

(And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) Well I don't mind working Cause I used to be jerkin off Most of my time in the bars I been a cabbie and a stock clerk And a soda fountain jock jerk And a manic mechanic on cars...

Check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky Splashin' bagdad on the hudson in panther martin's eyes He's high and outside wearin' candy apple red Scarlet gave him twenty seven stitches in his head With a...

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