Fourteen and one half years You know I was good fortune's slave Road map on my face Up to my neck in lucky breaks Cover your eyes Don't look now And durin' al...

Take me, And take me to your darkest room Close all the windows And bolt all the doors From the first moment, I heard your voice I'll be in darkness no more Ta...

Lose your coat and roll your sleeves This is demolition time Inventions full of spit and blood With blinders for the faint of heart Fortune's ashes crowd this m...

Into the heart of this old sunken ship A white knuckle journey you won't soon forget Out where the deepwater goes Into the veins of this old lizard skin To Ti...

Trying hard to remember your voice it seems so faraway all choked up by the heat and the dust it seems so faraway I'm gonna give you a call, from this air condi...

I go to sleep, before the devil wakes and I wake up, before the angels take all my worldly desires all my yardsticks of fear all my secrets untold all my motive...

I'm the nightwatchman and nothing gets behind my back Work out at the goldmine in a tin can shack Don't come up behind cause I won't be mincing my words Don't p...

Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier People want yo...

The sunset reaches to you With its long talons The new stars showin' pity For the fallen It drags you back up to your feet Leaves you ready to deceive Leaves yo...

Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier People want yo...

(Well) I'm going away to leave you And I'm going away for a while Well, I'm coming back to you someday When I've gone ten thousand miles Where the storms are on...

I got a message from the king A column of smoke center on the screen Out came face that I recognized And no disguise would have changed a thing And the sun nev...

Knock yourself And knock again Roll it all into your hand And let it spin There's a wind blowin' hell From the bottom of the well Let it fall Below the belt C...

Liars left their roost last night I heard it from some talkshow host Fangs and venom working hard In simulcast from coast to coast Hey ho, 'round we go This ro...

I don't care how long it might last don't care anymore don't care about that I don't care how long it might take I'm still wide awake out walkin' late Till I ...

Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flo...

Last time that I saw you, you were on the killing floor Last time that I saw you, all the tears had turned to clay Still I haven't panicked, come and pull the ...

Liars left their roost last night I heard it from some talkshow host Fangs and venom working hard In simulcast from coast to coast Hey ho, 'round we go This rot...

Gettin' stupid crooked feet A pinball on Scott Walker Street Gettin' stupid in a bar Not goin' home til the band plays "Superstar" Everything's on the edge ...

(Well) I dreamed I saw the devil's club Growin' by the burnin' bush And I dreamed that all your razor teeth Grabbed tomorrow by the root And I dreamed the long...

You're an open gate On a barbed wire fence Swingin' back and forth You know it scares me half to death Funny how it moved From a blessin' to a curse Ain't it fu...

The graveyard sits by the Prescott mill Where my old man lost his arm, And for that I was ready to kill But he just looked tired, And said: "Don't bury me near ...

Don't ask for favors And don't risk the truth My fingers are scissors They're cutting you through Cutting you through Cutting you through Velvet fog The bird ...

even the mightiest rivers will bend before they vanish, in the sand even the tallest of timbers will fall easy to fall, ain't easy to land well that's a curse o...

Into the heart of this old sunken ship A white knuckle journey you won't soon forget Out where the deepwater goes Into the veins of this old lizard skin To Ti...

Cross your heart gently The best days are with us Don't be dark-hearted You'll just disappear Trust you won't stumble I trust you won't walk blind Trust you wo...

Whiskey hold me well And never let me spill From the blind man's bluff Across the frozen lake Oh chance me, chance me not, With the last chance that you've got...

even the mightiest rivers will bend before they vanish, in the sand even the tallest of timbers will fall easy to fall, ain't easy to land well that's a curse o...

I waited all day And it seemed like one day too many To find out who knows what And why all the gallons are hanging Deadmen are sneaking Over thr hills Someth...

When death shall close these eyelids And this heart shall cease to beat And they lay me down to rest In some flowery-bound retreat Will you miss, miss me, when...

I waited all day And it seemed like one day too many To find out who knows what And why all the gallons are hanging Deadmen are sneaking Over thr hills Somethin...

I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'...

I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'...

T'was a cold wintry night Not a star was in sight And he north wind was howling down the line Went a brave engineer With a sweetheart so dear With an order to p...

( written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ) If you want money in your pocket And a top hat on your head A hot meal on your table And a blanket on your bed W...

Lay my body down By the shallows of the creek You can lay my body down Lay me in your reach And when my body's down We'll steal the thunder from the rain And w...