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Tom Waits lyrics
Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) lyrics
there's a blur drizzle down the plateglass
as a neon swizzle stick stirrin up the sultry night air
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 I'm freezin';
on a restless boulevard at a midnight road
I'm across town from EASY STREET
with the tight knots of moviegoers and out of towners
on the stroll
and the buildings towering high above
lit like dominoes or black dice
all the used car salesmen dressed up in
Purina Checkerboard slacks
and Foster Grant wrap-around,
pacing in front of EARL SCHLEIB
$39.95 merchandise
like barkers at a shootin' gallery
they throw out kind of a Texas Guinan routine
";Hello sucker, we like your money
just as well as anybody else's here";
or they give you the P.T. Barnum bit
";There's a sucker born every minute
you just happened to be comin' along at the right time";
come over here now
you know... all the harlequin sailors are on the stroll
in a search of ";LIKE NEW,"; ";NEW PAINT,";
decent factory air and AM-FM dreams
and the piss yellow gypsy cabs
stacked up in the taxi zones waitin' like
pinball machines
to be ticking off a joy ride to a magical place
waitin' in line like ";truckers welcome"; diners
with dirt lots full of
Peterbilts, Kenworths, Jimmy's and the like, and
they're hiballin' with bankrupt brakes, over driven
under paid, over fed, a day late and a dollar short
but Christ I got my lips around a bottle and
my foot on the throttle and I'm standin' on the corner
standin' on the corner like a ";just in town";
jasper, on a street corner with a gasper lookin'
for some kind of Cheshire billboard grin
stroking a goateed chin, and using parking meters
as walking sticks on the inebriated stroll
with my eyelids propped open at half mast
but you know... over at Chubb's Pool Hall and Snooker
it was a nickle after two, yea it was a nickle after two
and in the cobalt steel blue dream smoke, it
was the radio that groaned out the hit parade
and the chalk squeaked, the floorboards creaked
and an Olympia sign winked through a torn yellow
shade, old Jack Chance himself leanin' up against
a Wurlitzer and eyeballin' out a 5 ball combination shot
impossible you say? ...hard to believe?, perhaps
out of the realm of possibility? naaaa
he be stretchin' out long tawny fingers out across a
cool green felt with a provocative golden gate
and a full table railshot that's no sweat and I leaned
up against my bannister and wandered over to the
Wurlitzer and I punched A-2 I was lookin' for
something like Wine, Wine, Wine by the Night Caps
starring Chuck E. Weiss or High Blood Pressure
by George (cryin' in the streets) Perkins - no dice
";that's life,"; that's what all the people say ridin' high
in April, seriously shot down in May, but I know I'm
gonna change that tune when I'm standing underneath
a buttery moon that's all melted off to one side
It was just about that time that the sun
came crawlin' yellow out of a manhole
at the foot of 23rd Street
and a dracula moon in a black disguise
was making its way back to its
pre-paid room at the St. Moritz Hotel (scat)
and the El train came tumbling
across the trestles and it sounded
like the ghost of Gene Krupa
with an overhead cam and glasspacks
and the whispering brushes of wet radials
on a wet pavement and there's a
traffic jam session on Belmont tonight
and the rhapsody of the pending
evening, I leaned up against
my bannister and I've been looking
for some kind of an emotional
investment with romantic dividends
kind of a physical negociation
is underway
as I attempt to consolidate all my
missed weekly payments, into
one-low-monthly payment
through the nose
with romantic residuals and leg akimbo
but the chances are more than likely I'll probably
be held over for another smashed weekend
Other Tom Waits lyrics:
I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You lyrics
Virginia Avenue lyrics
Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) lyrics
Midnight Lullaby lyrics
Martha lyrics
Rosie lyrics
Lonely lyrics
Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of your Love) lyrics
Closing Time lyrics
New Coat Of Paint lyrics
San Diego Serenade lyrics
Semi Suite lyrics
(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night lyrics
Fumblin' With the Blues lyrics
Depot, Depot lyrics
Drunk on the Moon lyrics
The Ghosts of Saturday Night lyrics
(Opening Intro) lyrics
Emotional Weather Report lyrics
On a Foggy Night lyrics
Eggs & Sausage lyrics
Better Off Without a Wife lyrics
Warm Beer and Cold Women lyrics
Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) lyrics
Spare Parts II and Closing lyrics
Putnam County lyrics
Big Joe and Phantom 309 lyrics
Tom Traubert's Blues lyrics
Step Right Up lyrics
Jitterbug Boy lyrics
The Piano Has Been Drinking lyrics
Invitation to the Blues lyrics
Pasties and a G-string lyrics
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart lyrics
The One That Got Away lyrics
I Can't Wait to Get Off Work lyrics
I Wish I Was in New Orleans lyrics
Small Change lyrics
Cinny's Waltz lyrics
Muriel lyrics
I Never Talk To Strangers lyrics
Medley: Jack & Neal\California, Here I Come lyrics
A Sight For Sore Eyes lyrics
Potter's Field lyrics
Burma Shave lyrics
Barber Shop lyrics
Foreign Affair lyrics
Somewhere (from West Side Story) lyrics
Romeo is Bleeding lyrics
$29.00 lyrics
Wrong Side of the Road lyrics
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard lyrics
Kentucky Avenue lyrics
A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun lyrics
Blue Valentines lyrics
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis lyrics
Heartattack and Vine lyrics
In Shades lyrics
Saving All My Love For You lyrics
Downtown lyrics
Jersey Girl lyrics
'Til the Money Runs Out lyrics
On the Nickel lyrics
Mr. Siegal lyrics
Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream lyrics
Picking Up After You lyrics
Old Boyfriends lyrics
Broken Bicycles lyrics
I Beg Your Pardon lyrics
Little Boy Blue lyrics
You Can't Unring a Bell lyrics
This One's From the Heart lyrics
Take Me Home lyrics
Once Upon a Town lyrics
The Wages of Love lyrics
Shore Leave lyrics
Dave the Butcher lyrics
Town With No Cheer lyrics
In the Neighborhood lyrics
Just Another Sucker on the Vine lyrics
Frank's Wild Years lyrics
Down, Down, Down lyrics
Soldier's Things lyrics
Gin Soaked Boy lyrics
Trouble's Braids lyrics
Rainbirds lyrics
Swordfishtrombones lyrics
Singapore lyrics
Tango 'Til They're Sore lyrics
Diamonds and Gold lyrics
Hang Down Your Head lyrics
Midtown lyrics
Union Square lyrics
Blind Love lyrics
Walking Spanish lyrics
Downtown Train lyrics
Bride of Rain Dog lyrics
Anywhere I Lay My Head lyrics
Cemetery Polka lyrics
Jockey Full of Bourbon lyrics
9th & Hennepin lyrics
Hang On St. Christopher lyrics
Blow Wind Blow lyrics
Temptation lyrics
Innocent When You Dream lyrics
I'll Be Gone lyrics
Please Wake Me Up lyrics
Frank's Theme lyrics
More Than Rain lyrics
I'll Take New York lyrics
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six lyrics
Big Black Mariah lyrics
Clap Hands lyrics
Cold Cold Ground lyrics
Falling Down lyrics
Johnsburg, Illinois lyrics
Rain Dogs lyrics
Red Shoes by the Drugstore lyrics
Ruby's Arms lyrics
Straight To the Top (Rhumba) lyrics
Straight To the Top (Vegas) lyrics
Strange Weather lyrics
Telephone Call From Istanbul lyrics
Train Song lyrics
Underground lyrics
Way Down in the Hole lyrics
Yesterday Is Here lyrics
Gun Street Girl lyrics
Time lyrics
Frank's Song lyrics
Goin' Down Slow lyrics
Had Me A Girl lyrics
I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute lyrics
Ice Cream Man lyrics
Little Trip To Heaven lyrics
Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again lyrics
Midnight Lullabye lyrics
Poncho's Lament lyrics
Rockin' Chair lyrics
So Long I'll See Ya lyrics
Virginia Ave. lyrics
When You Ain't Got Nobody lyrics
Earth Died Screaming lyrics
Dirt in the Ground lyrics
Such A Scream lyrics
All Stripped Down lyrics
Who Are You lyrics
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me lyrics
Jesus Gonna Be Here lyrics
In the Colosseum lyrics
Goin' Out West lyrics
Murder in the Red Barn lyrics
Black Wings lyrics
Whistle Down the Wind lyrics
I Don't Wanna Grow Up lyrics
Let Me Get Up On It lyrics
That Feel lyrics
A Little Rain lyrics
Back in the Good Old World lyrics
Los Angeles Mood lyrics
Los Angeles Theme lyrics
New York Theme lyrics
New York Mood lyrics
Baby, I'm Not A Baby Anymore lyrics
Good Old World lyrics
Carnival Bob's Confession lyrics
On the Other Side of the World lyrics
Lucky Day Overture lyrics
The Black Rider lyrics
November lyrics
Just the Right Bullets lyrics
Black Box Theme lyrics
T'ain't No Sin lyrics
Flash Pan Hunter\Intro lyrics
That's the Way lyrics
The Briar and the Rose lyrics
Russian Dance lyrics
Gospel Train\Orchestra lyrics
I'll Shoot the Moon lyrics
Flash Pan Hunter lyrics
Crossroads lyrics
Gospel Train lyrics
Interlude lyrics
Oily Night lyrics
Lucky Day lyrics
The Last Rose of Summer lyrics
Carnival lyrics
Blue Skies lyrics
Diamonds on my Windshield lyrics
Grapefruit Moon lyrics
Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You lyrics
In Between Love lyrics
I Want You lyrics
Mockin' Bird lyrics
Nobody lyrics
Ol' 55 lyrics
Old Shoes lyrics
Please Call Me, Baby lyrics
Shiver Me Timbers lyrics
So It Goes lyrics
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