Biography:
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.
He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle
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Other songs:
- 16 Shells From A Thirty Ought Six
- 16 Shells From A Thirty-ought-six
- A Little Rain
- All The World Is Green
- Anywhere I Lay My Head
- Back In The Good Old World
- Big Black Maria
- Black Wings
- Blue Skies
- Blue Valentines
- Burma Shave
- Cemetery Polka
- Cold Cold Ground
- Diamonds Ad Gold
- Dirt In The Groung
- Downtown Train
- Fall Of Troy
- Falling Down
- Fumblin' With The Blues
- Goin' Down Slow
- Green Grass
- Haang Down Your Head
- Hang Down Your Head
- Hang On St. Christopher
- Hold On
- How's It Gonna End?
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
- I Want You
- I'll Shoot The Moon
- I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
- In The Neighborhood
- Innocent When You Dream
- Jesus Gonna Be Here
- Jockey Full Of Bourbon
- Jockey Full Of Burbon
- Little Drop Of Poison
- Little Trip To Heaven
- Long Way Home
- Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again
- Lucinda
- Lucky Day
- Martha
- Ol'55
- Old Shoes Picture Postcards
- Please Call Me Baby
- Poncho's Lament
- Rain Dogs
- Ruby's Arms
- Shiver Me Timbers
- Singapore
- Soldiers Things
- Strange Weather
- Tango Til They're Sore
- The Briar And The Rose
- The House Where Nobody Lives
- The Last Rose Of Summer
- The Piano Has Been Drinking (alternate Tuning)
- Time
- Yesterday Is Here
- I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You
- Johnsburg, Illinois
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- A Sight For Sore Eyes
- A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
- Alice
- Angels In Heaven
- Annies Back In Town
- Another Mans Vine
- Back In The Crowd
- Back In The Crowd And Talking At The Same Time
- Bad As Me
- Bad Liver And A Broken Heart
- Barcarolle
- Bend Down The Branches
- Better Off Without A Wife
- Big In Japan
- Black Market Baby
- Blind Love
- Bottom Of The World
- Broken Bicycles
- Bronx Lullabye Smugglers Waltz
- Buzz Fledderjohn
- Chocolate Jesus
- Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
- Clap Hands
- Cold Water
- Come On Up To The House
- Coney Island Baby
- Dead And Lovely
- Dead Lovely
- Diamond In Your Mind
- Diamonds And Gold
- Dirt In The Ground
- Down Down Down
- Down There By The Train
- Downtown
- Drunk On The Moon
- Eggs And Sausage
- Everything You Can Think
- Everything You Can Think Of Is True
- Fannin Street
- Filipino Box Spring Hog
- Fish And Bird
- Flowers Grave
- Foreign Affair
- Franks Song
- Franks Theme
- Franks Wild Years
- Fumblin With The Blues
- Georgia Lee
- Ghosts Of Saturday Night
- Gods Away On Business
- Goin Out West
- Going Down Slow
- Good Old World Waltz
- Grapefruit Moon
- Gun Street Girl
- Had Me A Girl
- Hard Rain Coming Down On Me
- Heart Attack And Vine
- Highway Cafe
- Hoist That Rag
- Home Ill Never Be
- Hope I Dont Fall In Love With You
- House Where Nobody Lives
- Hows It Gonna End
- I Beg Your Pardon Dear
- I Cant Wait To Get Off Work
- I Dont Wanna Grow Up
- I Forgot More Than Youll Ever Know About Her
- I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You
- I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning
- I Never Talk To Strangers
- I Wish I Was In New Orleans
- Ice Cream Man
- If I Have To Go
- Ill Be Gone
- Ill Shoot The Moon Live
- Im Still Here
- Im Your Late Night Prostitute
- In Between Love
- Invitation To The Blues
- Its Over
- Jaynes Blue Wish
- Jersey Girl
- Johnsburg Illinois
- Johnsburg Illinois Guitaruke
- Just The Right Bullets
- Kentucky Avenue
- Kiss Me
- Kommienezuspadt
- Last Leaf
- Last Rose Of Summer
- Lie To Me
- Little Boy Blue
- Lonely
- Looks Like Im Up Shit Creek Again
- Louise Tell It To Me
- Low Down
- Lullaby
- Make It Rain
- Midnight Lullaby
- Miserys The River Of The World
- More Than Rain
- Mr Henry
- Never Let Go
- New Coat Of Paint
- New Years Eve
- No One Knows Im Gone
- Nobody
- Ol 55
- On The Nickel
- On The Nickle
- On The Road
- Paradise Alley
- Pay Me
- Piano Has Been Drinking
- Picture In A Frame
- Ponchos Lament
- Pony
- Poor Edward
- Purple Avenue
- Rainbow Sleeves
- Rains On Me
- Road To Peace
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- Rosie
- Rubys Arms
- San Diego Serenade
- Saving All My Love For You
- Sea Of Love
- Semi Suite
- Shenandoah
- Sins Of My Father
- So It Goes
- Somewhere
- Somewhere From West Side Story
- Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
- Swordfishtrombone
- Table Tap Joe
- Take Care Of All My Children
- Take It With Me
- Take Me Home
- Take One Last Look
- Tango Till Theyre Sore
- Telephone Call From Istanbul
- Tell Me
- Temptation
- That Feel
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Ghosts Of Saturday Night After Hours At Napoleones Pizza House
- The Heart Of Saturday Night
- The Part You Throw Away
- Til The Money Runs Out
- Tom Trauberts Blues
- Train Song
- Trampled Rose
- Underground
- Union Square
- Virginia Avenue
- Walk Away
- Walking Spanish
- Warm Beer And Cold Women
- Way Down In The Hole
- Whistle Down The Wind
- Whistlin Past The Graveyard
- Who Are You
- Widows Grove
- World Keeps Turning
- Wrong Side Of The Road
- You Can Never Hold Back Spring
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Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue
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Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town
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Took the one eyed Jacks across the railroad tracks
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And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through
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He's a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave
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But the cops'd never think to look in Burma-Shave
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And the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone
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He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known
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He kinda looked like Farley Granger with his hair slicked back
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She says I'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
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How far are you going
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He said depends on what you mean
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He says I'm only stoppin' here to get some gasoline
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I guess I'm going thataway just as long as it's paved
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And I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma-Shave
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And with her knees up on the glove compartment
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Took out her barrettes
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And her hair spilled out like root beer
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And she popped her gum and arched her back
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Hell Marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road
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Some night my heart pounds just like thunder I don't know
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Why it don't explode
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Cause everyone in this stinking town
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Has got one foot in the grave
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And I'd rather take my chances
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Out in Burma-Shave
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Presley's what I go by why don't you change the station
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Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror
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Mister anywhere you point this thing
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Has got to beat the hell out of the sting
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Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin
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And so drill me a hole
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With a barber pole
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I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight
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Why don't you have another swig
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and pass that car if you're so brave
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I wanna get there before the sun comes up in
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Burma-Shave.
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And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
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Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
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Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
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Lie swindled from them on the way to
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Burma shave
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And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
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Up against the car door on the shotgun side
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And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she
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Still had on her shades
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They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of
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Burma Shave
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