Tom Waits - Drunk on the moon

Drunk on the Moon 


Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift 
'Neath the cement stroll 
Catch the midnight drift 
Cigar chewing charlie In that newspaper nest grifting hot horse tips 
On who's running the best 
And I'm blinded by the neon 
Don't try and change my tune 
'Cause I thought I heard a saxophone 
I'm drunk on the moon 
And the moon's a silver slipper 
It's pouring champagne stars 
Broadway's like a serpent 
Pulling shiny top-down cars 
Laramer is teeming 
With that undulating beat 
And some Bonneville is screaming 
It's way wilder down the street (Chorus) 
Hearts flutter and race 
The moon's on the wane 
Tarts mutter their dream hopes 
The night will ordain 
Come schemers and dancers 
Cherry delight 
As a Cleveland-bound 
Greyhound 
And it cuts throught the night 
And I've hawked all my yesterdays 
Don't try and change my tune 
'Cause I thought I heard a saxophone 
I'm drunk on the moon

Jersey Girl - Tom Waits

Jersey Girl	Jersey Girl
Got no time for the corner boys, down in the street makin' all that noise,	Não tenho tempo para os rapazes da esquina, para baixo em todos os makin rua "ruído que,
Don't want no whores on eighth avenue, cause tonight i'm gonna be with you.	Não quero nenhum prostitutas na Oitava Avenida, porque esta noite eu vou estar com você.
Cause tonight i'm gonna take that ride, across the river to the jersey side,	Porque hoje eu vou tomar esse passeio, atravessar o rio para o lado jersey,
Take my baby to the carnival, and i'll take you on all the rides, sing sha la	Levar o meu bebê para o carnaval, e eu vou levá-lo em todos os passeios, cantar sha la
La la la la sha la la la.	La la la la sha la la la.
Down the shore everything's alright, you with your baby on a saturday night,	Baixo tudo bem, tudo praia, você com seu bebê em uma noite de sábado,
Don't you know that all my dreams come true, when i'm walkin' down the street	Você não sabe que todos os meus sonhos, quando estou andando pela rua
With you, sing sha la la la la la sha la la la.	Com você, sha la cantar la la la la sha la la la.
You know she thrills me with all her charms, when i'm wrapped up in my	Você sabe que ela me emociona com todos os seus encantos, quando eu me envolvo na minha
Baby's arms, my little angel gives me everything, i know someday that she'll	Braços do bebê, meu anjinho me dá tudo, eu sei que algum dia ela vai
Wear my ring.	Usar o meu anel.
So don't bother me cause i got no time, i'm on my way to see that girl of	Por isso não me incomoda porque eu não tenho tempo, eu estou em minha maneira de ver aquela menina de
Mine, nothin' else matters in this whole wide world, when you're in love with	Assuntos mais nada meu, "neste mundo todo, quando você está apaixonado por
A jersey girl, sing sha la la la la la la.	Uma menina de jersey, cantar sha la la la la la la.
And i call your name, i can't sleep at night, sha la la la la la la.	E eu chamo seu nome, eu não consigo dormir à noite, sha la la la la la la.

Tom Waits - Shore leave

Tom Waits - Shore leave


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7JZUpaVPg


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 underneath
my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget
until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt
with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife

and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Well I was pacing myself
trying to make it all last
squeezing all the life
out of a lousy two day pass
and I had a cold one at the Dragon
with some Filipino floor show
and talked baseball with a lieutenant
over a Singapore sling
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
and find you there
and you know I love you Baby

and I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Shore Leave...
Shore Leave...

Foreign affair - Tom Waits

Foreign affair - Tom Waits


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj8JG8LcgRo


A one in a million chance
You know the moment that you crossed over the line
A casual glance
No one has to read between the lines
In the south of France it was spring time
Special feelings come alive
There's romance in the air, so they say
Love could be a small cafe away
Love is a piece of cake
And making love is all there is to eat
It's a heart out of a lamb
When yoy start to feel forever in a kiss
But you must remember there's no point of refuge
You only have a part in a lover's play
And you could be the one left in the dark
If someone takes a shortcut to your heart
All too soon you're touching for the last time
No one has to tell you how it is
It's just a memory two people share
File it under foreign affair

Downtown train - Tom Waits

Outside another yellow moon

punched a hole in the nighttime, yes

I climb through the window and down the street

shining like a new dime

the downtown trains are full with all those Brooklyn girls

they try so hard to break out of their little worlds

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows

they have nothing that will ever capture your heart

theyr'e just thorns without the rose

be careful of them in the dark

oh if I was the one

you chose to be your only one

oh baby can't you hear me now

Chorus

Will I see you tonight

on a downtown train

every night is just the same

you leave me lonely now

I know your window and I know it's late

I know your stairs and your doorway

I walk down your street and past your gate

I stand by the light at the four way

you watch them as they fall

they all have heart attacks

they stay at the carnival

but they'll never win you back

Chorus

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

where every night is just the same you leave me lonely

will I see you tonight on a downtown train

all of my dreams just fall like rain

all upon a downtown train

Tom Waits For No One - Animated 1979 ... John Lamb

Tom Waits For No One - Animated 1979 ... John Lamb


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs

Tom Waits - I'm Still Here

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 me that way in years
Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
Someone turn the lights back off
I'll love you til all time is gone

You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here 

Tom Waits - Lullaby

Lullaby

Tom Waits

Sun is red, moon is cracked
Daddy's never coming back
Nothing's ever yours to keep
Close your eyes, go to sleep
If I die before you wake
Don't you cry, don't you weep

Nothing's ever as it seems
Climb the ladder to your dreams
And if I die before you wake
Don't you cry, don't you weep
Nothing's ever yours to keep
close your eyes, go to sleep

Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms

Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms


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, although my heart is breaking, i will steal away out through your
blinds, for soon you will be waking.

the morning light has washed your face, and everything is turning blue now,
hold on to your pillow case there's nothing i can do now, as i say goodbye to
ruby's arms, you'll find another soldier, and i swear to god by christmas,
there'll be someone else to hold you.

the only thing i'm taking is the scarf off of your clothesline, i'll hurry
past your chest of drawers, and your broken window chimes, as i say goodbye
i'll say goodbye, say goodbye to ruby's arms.

i'll feel my way down the darken hall, and out into the morning, the hobos
at the freightyards, have kept their fires burning, so jesus christ this
goddamn rain, will someone put me on a train, i'll never kiss your lips again,
or break your heart, as i say goodbye i'll say goodbye, say goodbye to ruby's
arms.

Tom Waits - Waltzing Matilda - Tom Traubert's Blues

Tom Waits - Waltzing Matilda - Tom Traubert's Blues


Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I've got what I paid for now
See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you
To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley
And I'm tired of all these soldiers here
No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are soaking wet
To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking
A lot they can do for me
I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open,
And I'm down on my knees tonight
Old Bushmill's I staggered, you'd bury the dagger
In your silhouette window light go
To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her
And the one-armed bandit knows
And the maverick Chinamen, and the cold-blooded signs,
And the girls down by the strip-tease shows, go
Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

No, I don't want your sympathy, the fugitives say
That the streets aren't for dreaming now
And manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,
They want a piece of the action anyhow
Go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

And you can ask any sailor, and the keys from the jailor,
And the old men in wheelchairs know
And Mathilda's the defendant, she killed about a hundred,
And she follows wherever you may go
Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace,
And a wound that will never heal
No prima donna, the perfume is on an
Old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey
And goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers
And goodnight to Mathilda, too

Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring


You can never hold back spring
You can be sure that I will never
Stop believing
The blushing rose will climb
Spring ahead or fall behind
Winter dreams the same dream
Every time

You can never hold back spring
Even though you've lost your way
The world keeps dreaming of spring

So close your eyes
Open you heart
To the one who's dreaming of you
You can never hold back spring
Baby

Remember everything that spring
Can bring
You can never hold back spring

Tom Waits - All The World is Green

Tom Waits - All The World is Green


I fell into the ocean
When you became my wife
I risked it all aganist the sea
To have a better life
Marie you're the wild blue sky
And men do foolish things
You turn kings into beggars
And beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The face forgives the mirror
The worm forgives the plow
The questions begs the answer
Can you forgive me somehow
Maybe when our story's over
We'll go where it's always spring
The band is playing our song again
And all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The moon is yellow silver
Oh the things that summer brings
It's a love you'd kill for
And all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond
On a blade of grass
The dew will settle on our grave(s)
When all the world is green

Tom Waits - Lonely

Tom Waits - Lonely


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 that I knew all that there was to, lonely, lonely, lonely...

Melanie Jane, won't feel the pain.
Lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely eyes, lonely lonely in your place.

And I thought that I knew all that there was to
Lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely eyes, lonely lonely in your place, and
I still love you, I still love you, lonely, lonely...

Tom Waits -'Nirvana' (by Bukowski)

Tom Waits -'Nirvana' (by Bukowski)

Nirvana

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 bus stopped
at a little cafe
in the hills
and the passengers
entered.
he sat at the counter
with the others,
he ordered and the
food arrived.
the meal was
particularly
good
and the
coffee.
the waitress was
unlike the women
he had
known.
she was unaffected,
there was a natural
humor which came
from her.
the fry cook said
crazy things.
the dishwasher.
in back,
laughed, a good
clean
pleasant
laugh.
the young man watched
the snow through the
windows.
he wanted to stay
in that cafe
forever.
the curious feeling
swam through him
that everything
was
beautiful
there,
that it would always
stay beautiful
there.
then the bus driver
told the passengers
that it was time
to board.
the young man
thought, I'll just sit
here, I'll just stay
here.
but then
he rose and followed
the others into the
bus.
he found his seat
and looked at the cafe
through the bus
window.
then the bus moved
off, down a curve,
downward, out of
the hills.
the young man
looked straight
foreward.
he heard the other
passengers
speaking
of other things,
or they were
reading
or
attempting to
sleep.
they had not
noticed
the
magic.
the young man
put his head to
one side,
closed his
eyes,
pretended to
sleep.
there was nothing
else to do-
just to listen to the
sound of the
engine,
the sound of the
tires
in the
snow.




Charles Bukowski




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Tom Waits - Take Me Home

Tom Waits - Take Me Home

Take me home
You silly girl
Put your arms around me
Take me home
You silly boy
All the world's not round without you

I'm so sorry that I broke your heart
Please don't leave my side
Take me home
You silly girl
Cause I'm still in love you

Tom Waits - Shiver me timbers

Tom Waits - Shiver me timbers


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L_F0DIJyHRs

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 are salt water
And the moon's full and high

And I know Martin Eden's
Gonna be proud of me
And many before me
Who've been called by the sea
To be up in the crow's nest
Singin' my say
Shiver me Timbers
'Cause I'm a-sailin' away

And the fog's liftin'
And the sand's shiftin'
I'm driftin' on out
Ol' Captain Ahab
He ain't got nothin' on me, now.
So swallow me, don't follow me
I'm trav'lin' alone
Blue water's my daughter
'n I'm gonna skip like a stone

So please call my missus
Gotta tell her not to cry
'Cause my goodbye is written
By the moon in the sky
Hey and nobody knows me
I can't fathom my stayin'
Shiver me timbers
'Cause I'm a-sailin' away

And the fog's liftin'
And the sand's shiftin'
I'm driftin' on out
Ol' Captain Ahab
He ain't got nothin' on me
So come and swallow me, follow me
I'm trav'lin' alone
Blue water's my daughter
'n I'm gonna skip like a stone

And I'm leavin' my family
Leavin' all my friends
My body's at home
But my heart's in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines
Upon a new front page sky
And shiver me timbers
'Cause I'm a-sailin' away