Tom Waits - Tekstovi Pesama

Blue Valentines




She sends me blue valentines
all the way from Philadelphia
To mark the anniversary
of someone that I used to be
And it feels just like a warrant is out
for my arrest
Baby you got me checkin'
in my rearviewmirror
And I'm always on the run
That's why I change my name
and I didn't think you'd ever find me here

To send me blue valentines
like half forgotten dreams
Like a pebble in my shoe
as I walk these streets
And the ghost of your memory, baby,
is the thistle in the kiss
And the burglar that that can break a roses neck
It's the tattooed broken promise
I gotta hide beneath my sleeve
And I see you every time I turn my back

She sends me blue valentines
though I try to remain at large
They're insisting that our love
must have a colugy
Why do I save all of this madness
here, in the nightstand drawer
There to haunt upon my shoulders
Baby I know
I'd be luckier to walk around
everywhere I go
With this blind and broken heart
that sleeps beneath my lapel

She sends me blue valentines
to remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
or get these bloodstains off my hands
And it takes a lot of whiskey
to make these nightmares go away
And I cut my bleeding heart out every night
And I die a little more
on each St. Valentine day
Don't you remember that I promised I would write you
These blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines

Downtown Train


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

Earth Died Screaming



Rudy's on the midway
and Jacob's in the hole
the monkey's on the ladder
the devil shovels coal
with crows as big as airplanes
the lion has three heads
and someone will eat the skin that he sheds
and the earth died screaming
the earth died 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 in bug house square
and the army ants
they leave nothin' but the bones
and the earth died screaming while I lay dreaming of you

There was thunder there was lightning
then the stars went out and the moon fell from the sky
it rained mackerel it rained trout
and the great day of wrath has come
and here's mud in your big red eye
the poker's in the fire and the locusts take the sky
and the earth died screaming while I lay dreaming of you