Tom Waits
49 besedil pesmi
Romeo is bleeding
and they all jump when they hear the sirens but romeo just laughs and says all the racket in the world ain't never gonna save that coppers ass he'...
Red shoes by the drugstore
one straw in a rootbeer a compact with a cracked mirror and a bottle of evening in paris perfume he told her to wait in by the magazines he had ...
I wish i was in new orleans
Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen To that tenor saxophone calling me home And I can hear the band begin "When the Saints Go ...
Get behind the mule
She got to get behind the Mule In the morning and plow She got to get behind the Mule In the morning and plow She got to get behind the Mule In t...
The piano has been drinking (not me)
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye And he can't see out of the other And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and...
The briar and the rose
There's a tree in the forest But I don't know where I built a nest out of your hair And climbing up into the air A briar and a rose I don't kno...
The black rider
So come on in It ain't no sin Take off your skin And dance around your bones So come along with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time An...
Take it with me
Old long since gone Now way back when We lived in Coney Island Ain't no good thing Ever dies I'm gonna take it with me When I go Far far away...
T'ain't no sin
When it gets too hot for comfot And you can't get an ice cream cone T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around your bones...
Step right up
That's right, it filets, it chops, it dices, slices, Never stops, lasts a lifetime, mows your lawn And it mows your lawn and it picks up the kids f...
Saving all my love for you
the girls around here all look like cadillacs, no one likes a stranger here, i'd come home but i'm afraid that you won't take me back, but i'd trade ...
Ruby's arms
the morning light has washed your face, and everything is turning blue now, hold on to your pillow case there's nothing i can do now, as i say goodby...
Putnam county
kind of shy and sleepy as it clung to the skirts of the 2-lane, that was stretched out like an asphalt dance floor where all the oldtimers would hu...
Picture in a frame
I come calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best Every since I put your picture In a frame I'...
On the nickel
so you better bring a bucket, there is a hole in the pail, and if you don't get my letter, then you'll know that i'm in jail, and what becomes of all...
On a foggy night
with no indication of a service station or an all night garage, I was misinformed I was misdirected cause the interchange never intersected leaving...
Nighthawk postcards (from easy street)
and a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon rollin' maverick across an obsidian sky as the busses go groanin' and wheezin', down on the corner ...
Mr. siegal
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 dr...
Lucky day overture
That's right You'll see the Three Headed Baby You'll see Hitler's brain See Lea Graff the German midget who sat in J.F. Morgan's lap You'll see ...
Lowside of the road
The moon is red and your Dancin real slow 29 miles left to go The chain momkeys Help you with your load You're rollin over to the Lowside of the...
Kentucky anvenue
hilda plays strip poker and her mamas across the street joey navinski says she put her tongue in his mouth dicky faulkners got a switchblade and s...
Just the right bullets
You can never go hunting With just a flintlock and a hound You won't go home with a bunting If you blow a hundred rounds It takes much more than...
Jitterbug boy
Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift Once upon a time I was in show-biz too I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field Se...
Invitation to the blues
And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita Hayworth At the counter of the Schwab's drugstore You wonder if she might be single, she's a lone...
I can't wait to get off work (and see my baby on montgomery avenue)
And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby, She said she'd leave the porch light on for me. I'm disheveled and I'm disdainful and I'm distrac...
House where nobody lives
Once it held laughter Once it held dreams Did they throw it away Did they know what it means Did someone's heart break Or did someone do somebody...
Gospel train
Well, come on people 'Cause it's startin' to rain Get on board, it's the gospel train Don't listen to the devil Don't listen to the devil Satan w...
Heartattack and vine
doctor lawyer beggar man thief, philly joe remarkable looks on in disbelief, if you want a taste of madness, you'll have to wait in line, you'll prob...
Georgia lee
Why wasn't God watching? Why wasn't God listening? Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee? Ida said she couldn't keep Georgia From dropping out o...
Filipino box spring hog
Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road Fill it with madrone and bay Stinks like hell And the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Slap ...
Flash pan hunter
CHORUS For Wilhelm can't wait To be Peg Leg's crown As the briar is strangling The rose back down His back shall be my slender new branch It w...
Eyeball kid
Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid Well the first time I saw him Was a Saigon jail Cost me 27 dollars Just to go his bail I said your name will Be in ...
Come on up to the house
All your cryin don't do no good Come on up to the house Come down off the cross We can use the wood Come on up to the house Come on up to the h...
Eggs & sausage
eggs and sausage and a side of toast coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy chile in a bowl with burgers and fries what kind of pie? In a grav...
Cold water
Police at the station And they don't look friendly Well they don't look friendly Well they don't look friendly Police at the station And they don...
Christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis
and he says that he loves me even though its not his baby and he says that he'll raise him up like he would his own son and he gave me a ring tha...
Blue valentine
To send me blue valentines Like half forgotten dreams Like a pebble in my shoe As I walk these streets And the ghost of your memory Is the thistl...
Chocolate jesus
I fall on my knees every Sunday At Zerelda Lee's candy store Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside Got to be a chocolat...
A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun
now there's a place off the drag called the gilbert hotel there's a couple letters burned out in the sign and it's better than a bus stop and they...
Bad liver and a broken heart
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 quite a pair, She was sharp as a razor an...
Better off without a wife
I like to sleep until the crack of noon midnight howlin' at the moon goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I please I don't have to ask permissi...
Black market baby
She's my Black Market Baby She's my Black Market Baby She's a diamond that Wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal I swang out wide with her On ...
$29.00
i see already that vulture in the fleetwood with the shartruse hood can see you're trying to get your bearings and you say hey which ways the main ...
Spare parts i (a nocturnal emission)
(scat)...
Small change (got rained on with his own .38)
And nobody flinched down by the arcade And the burglar alarm's been disconnected, And the newsmen start to rattle And the cops are telling jokes a...
November
No prayers for November To linger longer Stick your spoon in the wall We'll slaughter them all November has tied me To an old dead tree Get wo...
I'll shoot the moon
I want to take you Out to the fair Here's a red rose Ribbon for your hair I'll shoot the moon Right out of the sky For you baby I'll shoot th...
Emotional weather report
chance of showers into the afternoon with variable high cloudiness and gusty winds, gusty winds at times around the corner of Sunset and Alvorado ...
Big joe and phantom 309
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 t...