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November – Tom Waits

No shadows, no stars There’s no moon and no cars November 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 And we’ll slaughter them all November has tied me to an old dead tree Get [...]

Rain Dogs

Click here to listen to the album version. 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 was all ripe for dreaming Oh, [...]

Blue Valentines

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 the don´t look friendly Well they don´t look friendly, Well they don´t look friendly Police at the [...]

$29.00 – Tom Waits

Little black girl, in a red dress, on a hot night, with a broken shoeLittle black girl, you should’ve never left homeThere’s probably someone still waitin’ up for youIt’s cold back in Chicago, but the Los Angeles street is worseAll you got is twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse See that vulture in the Fleetwood, [...]