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Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies The Island Years

screaming While I lay dreaming of you Well hell doesn't want you And heaven is full Bring me some water Put it in this skull I walk between the raindrops Wait

with leaves With a blanket from the moon With a promise and a vow And a lullaby for my brow Jesus gonna be here Be here soon Well I'm just gonna wait

there's wood in the shed there's a bird in the chimmney and a stone in my bed when the road's washed out they pass the bottle around and wait in the

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

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

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

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

(tom waits for marianne faithful) Will you take me across the channel, London bridge is falling down. Strange a woman tries to save What a man will try

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