Well I learned the trade Frome Piggy Knowles and Sing sing Tommy Shay Boys gid used me as hammer boys To beat his weary drum today Hoist that rag Hoist that ra...

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 M...

(Jack Kerouac) I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling hall Fa...

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display Your heart for me to see, I had a...

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 i...

He had 3 whole dollars A worn out car And a wife who was LEaving for good LIfe's made of trouble Worry pain and struggle She wrote good bye in The dust on the h...

(And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) Well I don't mind working Cause I used to be jerkin off Most of my time in the bars I been a cabbie and a stock clerk An...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a w...

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display Your heart for me to see, I had a...

stop me if you've heard this one i feel as though we've met before perhaps i'm mistaken but it's just that i remind you of someone you used to care about but th...

I want you, you, you All I want is you, you, you All I want is you Give you the stars above, Sun on the brightest day Give you all my love, if you would only s...

Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams, Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some...

Written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan Tonight I'll shave the mountain I'll cut the hearts from pharoahs I pull the road off of the rise Tear the memories fr...

I'll shoot the moon Right out of the sky For you baby I'll be the pennies On your eyes For you baby I want to take you Out to the fair Here's a red rose Ribbon...

You haven't looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for You haven't looked at m...

Well I got here at eight and I'll be here till two I'll try my best to entertain you and Please don't mind me if I get a bit crude I'm your late night evening p...

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five Sidewalk sundae strawberry surprise, I got a cherry popsicle right on time A big stick, mamma, that'll blow ...

And if I have to go, will you remember me? Will you find someone else, while I'm away? There's nothing for me, in this world full of strangers It's all someone ...

In between love and trying to scheme love Who can tell what we may find Never thought love, not get caught love Between the magic in your eyes And loves like wo...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) The women al lcontrol their men With razors and with wrists And the princess squeezes grape juice On a torrid bloody kiss What will you b...

Tom Waits: Vocal Victor Feldman: Hammond B-3 organ, snare drum, bells Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Parade drums, cymbals Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass Richard Re...

The bats are in the belfry the dew is on the moor where are the arms that held me and pledged her love before and pledged her love before Chorus: It's such a sa...

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula, Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelors She's a moving violation from her conk down to...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan-Waits) You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the colour of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade...

jack was sittin poker faced with bullets backed with bitches neal hunched at the wheel puttin everyone in stiches braggin bout this nurse he screwed while drivi...

(Tom Waits/ Kathleen Brennan) The sky holds all our wishes The dish ran away with the spoon Chimney smoke ties the roofs to the sky There's a hole overhead It'...

got no time for the corner boys, down in the street makin' all that noise, don't want no whores on eighth avenue, cause tonight i'm gonna be with you cause ton...

Well, Jesus will be here Be here soon he's gonna cover us up with leaves With a blanket from the moon With a promise and a vow And a lullaby for my brow Jesus g...

Well, I'm a jitterbug boy, by the shoe-shine Resting on my laurels and my hardys too Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift Once upon a time I wa...

Edna Million in a drop dead suit Dutch pink on a downtown train Two dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot I'm in the corner in the pouring rain 16 men on a dead...

She's my only true love she's all that I think of look here in my wallet that's her She grew up on a farm there there's a place on my arm where I've written her...

There is a light in the forest There is a face in the tree I'll pull you out of the chorus And the first one's always free You can never go hunting With just a...

eddie graces buick got 4 bullet holes in the side charley delislesittin' at the top of an avacado tree mrs storml stab you with a steak knife if you step on her...

(Daniel Johnston) They shot him down They shot him down They thought he was a monster But he was the King They came to his island And they brought her with th...

The fire's dyin' out All the embers have been spent Outside on the street Lover's eyes in the shadows You look at me I look at you There's only one thing I want...

(Pretend German) Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Ko...

I'm the last leaf on the tree The autumn took the rest But they won't take me I'm the last leaf on the tree When the autumn wind blows They're already gone The...

(You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby - move on I know you got another Jockey at home...

I like my town With a little drop of poison Nobody knows They're linin' up to go insane I'm all alone I smoke my friends down to the filter But I feel much cle...

(Teddy Edwards) Sure as fire will burn There's one thing you will learn Those things you have cherished Are things that you have earned Luck is when opportunit...

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face, lonely lonely in your place Lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face, lonely lonely in your place I thought t...

(Tom Waits/ Kathleen Brennan) Well I stumbled in the darkness I'm lost and alone Though I said I'd go before us And show the way back home There a light up ahe...

Well the sun came in my window Wednesday morning And your love was like the golden rays again Now I'm lying here on a Thursday, and you're lovin someone new And...

Woah I, know I've been changed And I know I've been changed I know I've been changed Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name Well...

Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need ...

I'm on a black elevator Goin down Little Joe from Kokomo It rattles to the ground The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed Your rollin over to the Lowside...

Well they call me William The Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers When the shadows get long I'll be dead Now her ...

The prettiest girl In all the world Is in a little Spanish town But I left her for a Bonnie lass And I told her I'd see her around But that Bonnie lass And her ...

Well Frank settled down in the Valley and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead he sold used office furniture out there on ...

She took all my money And my best friend You know the story Here it comes again I have no pride I have no shame You gotta make it rain Make it rain Since you'...

Operator, number, please: it's been so many years Will she remember my old voice while I fight the tears? Hello, hello there, is this Martha? this is old Tom Fr...

(California, Here I Come by Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson and Buddy G De Sylva) jack was sittin poker faced with bullets backed with bitches neal hunched at the whee...

Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye Hush-a bye my baby, no need to be crying You can burn the midnight oil with me As long as you will Stare out at the ...

Misery`s the river of the world Misery`s the river of the world The higher that the monkey can clim the more he shows his tail Call no man happy `til he dies T...

Mocking Bird high in a tree Looks like you got the best of me Mocking Bird singing his song Well Mocking Bird mocking me Now that you're gone Mocking Bird high...

It's more than rain that falls on our parade tonight it's more than thunder it's more than thunder it's more than a swindle this crooked card game it's more th...

(previously unreleased) Mr Henry stumbles home When the evening's done He's as poor as a church mouse High on the Meyer's rum Tugging at his shirttail Jiggling...

i spent all my money in a mexican whorehouse, across the street from a catholic church, and then i wiped off my revolver, and i buttoned up my burgundy shirt, i...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) There was a murder in the red barn Murder in the red barn The trees are bending over The cows are lying down The atumn's taking over You...

muriel since you left town the clubs closed down and there's one more burned out lamppost down on the main street down where we used to stroll and muriel i stil...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) Well, ring the bell backwards and bury the axe Fall down on your knees in the dirt I'm tied to the mast between water and wind...

Let's put a new coat of paint On this lonesome old town Set em' up, we'll be knockin' 'em down You wear a dress Baby I'll a tie We'll laugh at that old bloodsho...

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' maver...

Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere And it began to snow And the...

Hell above and Heaven below All the trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet under ground The leaves will bury every year And ...

Nobody, nobody, will ever love you the way that I love you Cause nobody's that strong Love's bittersweet, life's treasures deep No one can keep a love that's g...

No shadow No stars No moon No care November It only believes In a pile of dead leaves And a moon That's the color of bone No prayers for November To linger lon...

(Tom Waits) Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-split out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive Now t...

Old boyfriends, Lost in the pocket of your overcoat, Like burned out lite bulbs on a ferris wheel Old boy friends, You remember the kinds of cars they drove, P...

on a foggy night, an abandoned road in a twilight mirror mirage with no indication of a service station or an all night garage, I was misinformed I was misdirec...

sticks and stones will break my bones, but i always will be true, and when your mama is dead and gone, i'll sing this lullabye just for you, and what becomes of...

I wish I had a dollar for each time I took a chance On all those two bit Romeos who counterfeit romance Somehow always thinking of each time that I fell down Kn...

Well, an inebriated good evening to you all Welcome to Rafael's Silver Cloud Lounge Slip me a little crimson Jimson Give me the low down bro What's the scoop Be...

[Tom Waits:] I wish I had a dollar for each time I took a chance [Crystal Gayle:] On all those two bit Romeos who counterfeit romance [Tom Waits:] Somehow alway...

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp, I aint got a quarter, got a postage stamp Been five oclock shadow boxing all around the town, Talking with the ol...

They pay me not to come home, Keeping me stoned, I won't run away. They say it's easy to get, Stuck in this town, Just like joan. You know I gave it all up for...

Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Ever since I put your picture In a frame I come calling in m...

The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs But I just...

Well the stairs sound so lonely without you And I ain't made my bed in a week Coffee stains on the paper I'm writing And I'm too choked up inside to speak And ...

I've seen it all boys I've been all over Been everywhere in the Whole wide world I rode the high line With old blind Darby I danced real slow With Ida Jane I w...

Did you hear the news about Edward? On the back of his head He had another face Was it a woman's face Or a young girl They said to remove it would kill him So p...

(Waits/Brennan) Poor little lamb now his fleece is all cold Wakes up in the morning alone Poor little lamb knows what's coming Life is an empty cup Poor littl...

Well you can buy me a drink and i'll tell you what i seen And i'll give you a bargain from the edge of a maniac's dream That buys a black widow spider with a ri...

I guess things were always quiet around Putnam County kind of shy and sleepy as it clung to the skirts of the 2-lane, that was stretched out like an asphalt dan...

(Tom Waits) You gotta stomp, whistle and scream You gotta wake right up in your dreams You gotta jump, wheel and drive Keep that feeling alive You gotta kick,...

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 Chorus: Oh, ...

(Tom Waits/Chuck E Weiss) This is how the world will be Everywhere I go it rains on me Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea Everywhere I go it rains on me I...

she wore red shoes by the newstand as the rain splashed the nickle spilled like chablis along the midway theres a little bluejay in a red dress, on a sad night ...

Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with ...

Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old, He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home And his mother held his photograph, ...

Well I'm sittin' right here in my rockin chair Running my fingers right through my hair Fire is flicken with a yellow and gold Makin me quiver in the snowy cold...

romeo is bleeding but not so as you'd notice he's over on 18th street as usual looking so hatd against the hood of his car ans putting out a cigarette in his ha...

Well I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn Nobody's up except the moon and me, And a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree All that you left me was a melod...

I will leave behind all of my clothes, I wore when I was with you, All I need's my railroad boots, And my leather jacket, As I say goodbye to ruby's arms, Altho...

I never saw the mornin' 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long I...

When I'm gone When I'm gone Roll my vertebrae out like dice Let my skull be a home for the mice Let me bleach like the bones on a beach I'll be hard like a pit...

it's too early for the circus, it's too late for the bars, no one's sleepin' but the paperboys, and no one in this town is makin' any noise, but the dogs and th...

(Philipe Baptiste/George Khoury) Come with me my love to the sea The sea of love I want to tell you How much I love you I'm drowning in a sea of love Do you r...

Well you hate those diesels rollin' And those Friday nights out bowlin' When he's off for a twelve hour lay over night You wish you had a dollar For every time...

Strip Poker Motel Got a small blue tail Hot ice, cold cash I never been no good at staying out of jail Wheel spin, roulette Who's giving, don't get Ripped shir...