I'm leavin' my fam'ly Leavin' all my friends My body's at home But my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines On a new front page sky My tears a...

Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart I rolled down the national stroll and with a big fat paycheck strapped to my hip sack and a shore leave wristwatch u...

We sail tonight for Singapore We're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny moor Took off to the land of Nod Drank with all the Chinamen Walked the s...

God said don't give me your tin horn prayers Don't buy roses off the street down there Took it all and took the dirt road home Dreamin' of Jenny with the light ...

Mamas in the kitchen, Daddies on the phone And nobody knows what's going on But I've got those So long I'll see you cause my Buick's outside waiting blues Well...

Davenports and kettle drums And swallow tail coats Table cloths and patent leather shoes Bathing suits and bowling balls And clarinets and rings And all this ra...

well the dawn cracked hard just like a bull whip cause it wasn't takin' no lip from the night before as it shook out the street, the stew bums showed up just li...

Life is whittled Life's a riddle Man's a fiddle that life plays on When the day breaks, and the earth quakes Life's a mistake all day long You tell me, who giv...

Step right up, step right up, step right up, Everyone's a winner, bargains galore That's right, you too can be the proud owner Of the quality goes in before the...

Well Pale Face said To the Eyeball Kid She just goes clank and boom and steam A halo, wings, horns and a tail Shoveling coal inside my dreams There are no laws ...

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that ...

(Walter Donaldson/Edgar Leslie) When you hear sweet syncopation And the music softly moans T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around in your bones ...

(Waits) Oh, take care of all of my children Don't let 'em wander and roam Oh, take care of all of my children For I don't know when I'm comin' back home You c...

Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me When I ...

Well you play that tarantella all the hounds will start to roar The boys all go to hell and then the Cubans hit the floor They drive along the pipeline, they ta...

All night long on the broken glass livin in a medicine chest mediteromanian hotel back sprawled across a roll top desk the monkey rode the blade on an overhead...

They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say...

Rusted brandy in a diamond glass everything is made from dreams time is made from honey slow and sweet only the fools know what it means temptation, temptation,...

Well there's one thing you can't lose It's that feel Your pants, your shirt, your shoes But not that feel You can throw it out in the rain You can whip it like ...

(Tom Waits/William Burroughs) That's the way the stomach rumbles That's the way the bee bumbles That's the way the needle pricks That's the way the glue sticks ...

Come on a long with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Lay down in the web of the black spider I'll drink your blood like wine So come on in It ain't no...

I fell asleep down by the stream And there I had the strangest dream And down by brennans glenn there grows A briar and a rose Theres a tree in the forest But ...

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St Charles in ...

(AFTER HOURS AT NAPOLEONE'S PIZZA HOUSE) A cab combs the snake, Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare, And a solitary sailor Who spends the facts of his lif...

Well you gassed her up Behind the wheel With your arm around your sweet one In your oldsmobile Barrelin' down the boulevard You're looking for the heart of satu...

I love the way The tattered clouds Go wind across the sky As summer goes And leave me With a tear in my eye I'm taking out my winter clothes My garden knows w...

(Tom Waits) The ocean doesn't want me today But I'll be back tomorrow to play And the strangles will take me Down deep in their brine The mischievous braingels...

Well this gigolo's jumping salty, ain't no trade out on the streets, Half past the unlucky, and the hawk's a front-row seat Dressed in full orchestration, stage...

You dance real slow You wreck it down You walk away, then you Turn around What did that old blonde Gal say? That is the part You throw away I want that beggar...

The piano has been drinking My necktie is asleep And the combo went back to New York The jukebox has to take a leak And the carpet needs a haircut And the spotl...

(The Ramones) [Originally by The Ramones] Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt They went down to the Mudd Club and they both got drunk Well Jackie is a bookie, J...

(Tom Waits/ Kathleen Brennan) On our anniversary There'll be someone else where you used to be The world don't care and yet it clings to me And the moon is gol...

It's dreamy weather Where on you waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond With a frozen moon Murder of silhouette crows I saw in the tears on my face And the s...

As you go out it's Independence Day; But instead I'll just pour myself a drink It's got to be love, I've never felt this way Oh baby, this one's from the heart ...

check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky, splashin' bagdad on the hudson in panther martin's eyes, he's high and outside wearin' candy apple red,...

Well, the smart money's on Harlow And the moon is in the street The shadow boys are breaking all the laws And you're east of East St Louis And the wind is makin...

Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did I've got what I paid for now See ya tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow A couple of bucks from you, to go Waltzing ...

Stop and get me on the ride up (uh-huh-huh) To the top (Can we have a little more on my voice?) Stop and get me on the ride up (Uh-huh-huh) On the top of the hi...

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier there'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo from Melbourne ...

Well I broke down in E St Louis On the Kansas City line and I drunk up all my money that I borrowed every time and I fell down at the derby and now the night's ...

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 ...

There was an old woman, lived by the seashore Bow and balance me There was an old woman, lived by the seashore A number of daughters: one, two, three, four And ...

Rattle Big Black Bones in the Danger zone there's a rumblin' groan down below there's a big dark town it's a place I've found there's a world going on UNDERGROU...

Well time is always money For the boys at Union Square You can bust your ass till doomsday But don't forget to say your prayers Someone's got a wad on the backs...

Well when you ain't got nobody, anybody looks nice Don't take much to make you stop and look twice And it's either feast or famine, I've found out that it's tru...

Down thru the ages All the sages said don't spend your wages on Love Graft and collusion _____ the intrusion and proceeding foreclosures there's overexposures d...

Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain with a little drop of poison in the red, red blood She need a way to turn around the bend She said I want to walk aw...

He's got himself a homemade special You know his glass is full of sand And it fells just like a jaybird The way it fits into his hand He rolled a blade up in hi...

Warm beer and cold women, I just dont fit in Every joint I stumbled into tonight Thats just how its been All these double knit strangers with Gin and vermouth a...

Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your ...

Written by Tom Waits When you walk through the garden you gotta watch your back well I beg your pardon walk the straight and narrow track if you walk with Jesu...

You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the footsteps of the dead We're all mad here...

(Weill/Brecht) You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your pr...

What's he building in there? What the hell is he building in there? He has subscriptions to those magazines He never waves when he goes by He's hiding somethin...

Well when you ain't got nobody, anybody looks nice Don't take much to make you stop and look twice And it's either feast or famine, I've found out that it's tru...

(Tom Waits) I've grown up here now All of my life But I dreamed Someday I'd go Where blue eyed girls And red guitars and Naked rivers flow I'm not all I thoug...

Well i come in on a night train With an arm full of box cars On the wings of a magpie Cross a hooligan night And i busted up a chifforobe Way out by the cocomo ...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) They're lining up To mad dog your tilta whirl 3 shots for a dollar Win a real live doll All the lies that you tell I believed them so wel...

I met you in the saddle, rode you in the dust Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth There was something that blinded me more than the mi...

put a dead cat on the railroad tracks when the wolf bains blooming by the tressel and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch and wash em down ...

You can never hold back spring You can be sure that I will never Stop believing The blushing rose will clim Spring ahead or fall behind Winter dreams the same d...

You can't unring a bell, junior It'll cost ya to get out of this one, junior Cause he's got big plans That don't include you Take it like a man Cause you, you ...

Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you If you're young at heart For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind If you're young at heart You can go...