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 word to April to rescue me
November’s cold chain made [...]
Categories: Tom Waits
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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, how we danced away all of the lights
We’ve [...]
Categories: Tom Waits
Categories: 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 station, and they don´t look friendly
They [...]
Categories: 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, with [...]
Categories: Tom Waits
