Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag (live in Amsterdam)

Tom Waits - What's He Building and Shake It

Tom Waits - Don't Go Into that Barn

Tom Waits - Walk Away and Metropolitan Glide

Tom Waits - Trampled Rose

LYRICS:



Long way going to get my medicine

Sky's t... (más)
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LYRICS:

Long way going to get my medicine
Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren

Piano from a window played
Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday

I found it in the street, at first I did not see
Lying at my feet a trampled rose

Passing the hat in church
It never stops going around

You never pay just once
To get the job done

What I've done to you, I know you've done to me
So what happened to the trampled rose?

In the muddy streets
With the fireworks and the leaves

A blind man with a cup I asked
Would you play "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"

I know that rose just like I know my name
The one I gave my love, I swear it was the same
Now I find it in the street a trampled rose

Words & Music by Tom Waits

Tom Waits.Make It Rain

Tom Waits-All the world is green

Tom Waits-Waltzing Matilda

Tom Waits-Waltzing Matilda

Tom Waits- House where nobody lives

Tom Waits- Big In Japan

Tom Waits - Hold On -muy buena-

They hung a sign up in out town
’if you live it up, you won’t
Live it down’
So, she left monte rio, son
Just like a bullet leaves a gun
With charcoal eyes and monroe hips
She went and took that california trip
Well, the moon was gold, her
Hair like wind
She said don’t look back just
Come on jim
(chorus)
Oh you got to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I’m standing right here
You gotta hold on

Well, he gave her a dimestore watch
And a ring made from a spoon
Everyone is looking for someone to blame
But you share my bed, you share my name
Well, go ahead and call the cops
You don’t meet nice girls in coffee shops
She said baby, I still love you
Sometimes there’s nothin left to do

Oh you got to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I’m standing right here, you got to
Just hold on.

Well, God bless your crooked little heart st. louis got the best of me
I miss your broken-china voice
How I wish you were still here with me

Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
You burn your mansion to the ground
When there’s nothing left to keep you here, when
You’re falling behind in this
Big blue world

Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I’m standing right here
You got to hold on

Down by the riverside motel,
It’s 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store she closed her eyes
And started swaying
But it’s so hard to dance that way
When it’s cold and there’s no music
Well your old hometown is so far away
But, inside your head there’s a record
That’s playing, a song called

Hold on, hold on
You really got to hold on
Take my hand, I’m standing right here
And just hold on.

Tom Waits-House Where Nobody Lives

There’s a house on my block
That’s abandoned and cold
Folks moved out of it a
Long time ago
And they took all their things
And they never came back
Looks like it’s haunted
With the windows all cracked
And everyone call it
The house, the 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 wrong?

Well the paint was all cracked
It was peeled off of the wood
Papers were stacked on the porch
Where I stood
And the weeds had grown up
Just as high as the door
There were birds in the chimney
And an old chest of drawers
Looks like no one will ever
Come back to the
House were 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 someone wrong?
So if you find someone
Someone to have, someone to hold
Don’t trade it for silver
Don’t trade it for gold
I have all of life’s treasures
And they are fine and they are good
They remind me that houses
Are just made of wood
What makes a house grand
Ain’t the roof or the doors
If there’s love in a house
It’s a palace for sure
Without love...
It ain’t nothin but a house
A house where nobody lives
Without love it ain’t nothin
But a house, a house where
Nobody lives.

Tom Waits - Eyeball Kid

Well zenora bariella
And coriander pyle
They had sixteen children
In the usual style
They had a curio museum
And they had no guile
All they ever wanted
Was a show biz child
So on the 7th of dec. 1949
They got what
They’d been wishing for
All of the time
He grew up in a trailer
By the time he was 9
He rolled off to join
The circus... telling fortunes
On the side

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 lights...
And that’s no doubt
But you got to have
A manager that’s what
It’s all about
People would point
People would stare
I’ll always be here
To protect you and to
Cut down on the glare
I know you can’t speak
I know you can’t sign
So cry right here on
The dotted line

Hail hail, the eyeball kid

Well he was born with out a body
Not even a brow
I made the kid a promise
I made the kid a vow
He’s not conventionally handsome
He’ll never be tall
He said ’all you got to do is
Book me into carnegie hall’

Hail hail, the eyeball kid

He’s just a little bitty thing
He’s just a little guy
But women go crazy
For the big blue eye
They say how does he
Dream? how does he think
When he can’t ever speak
And he can’t ever blink?

I said hail hail, the eyeball kid
Hail hail, the eyeball kid

Give it up and throw me down
A couple of quic
Everybody wants to see
The eyeball kid

How dies he dream
How does he think
When he can’t even speak
And he can’t even blink
We are all lost in the
Wilderness we’re as
Blind as can be
He came down to teach us
How to really see

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

So give it up and throw
Me down a couple of quid
Everybody wants to see
The eyeball kid
Eyeball kid
Eyeball kid

Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon

Tom Waits - 1986 Letterman Tango til They're Sore

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

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 always been out of our minds

The rum pours strong and thin, beat out the dustman with the rain dogs
Aboard a shipwreck train, give my umbrella to the rain dogs
For I am a rain dog, too

Oh, how we danced with the rose of tralee
Her long hair black as a raven
Oh, how we danced and you whispered to me
You’ll never be going back home
Oh, how we danced with the rose of tralee
Her long hair black as a raven
Oh, how we danced and you whispered to me
You’ll never be going back home

Tom Waits interview & Rain Dogs- live 1986

Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl (live)-muy bueno-

Tom Waits - Walking Spanish Down The Hall

A day in Vienna 19th April '78