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Waits Tom lyrics

Waits Tom lyrics

"Shore Leave Lyrics"

Still Standing Lyrics
I wish you were here tonight with me To see the northern light I wish you were here tonight with me I wish I could occupy my side tonight When the sky is burning I wish I could occupy my side


Tom Waits: Chair, vocal
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums
Randy Aldcroft: Trombone
Victor Feldman: Marimba, bass marimba & shaker, bass drum with rice
Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
Fred Tackett: Banjo, guitar
Francis Thumm: Metal aunglongs

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<
Tired Of Talking Lyrics
Big old moon and a sweet starry night I think I'll go out walking Wish I could change the way you're feelin' tonight But I'm just tired of talkin' You're still giving
br /> 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 som
Switch on Switch Off Lyrics
Don't talk to me Just stay inside your nightmare Don't blind me Nobody likes you anywhere Stay away From masters of the unborn Break away Your soul will be torn Blame your
e 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<
5 Kilo Lyrics
Steife Hften, verkrampfter Po Eigentlich wollt ich nur aufs Klo Ich warte und ich schwitze Mu hier im Grenzhuschen sitzen Warum wurd' ich rausgefischt? Bisher doch noch nie erwischt Mu
br /> 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
an
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...