Damn, knew I was missing out on something.
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Every so often, I fall into a Tom Waits spiral. This one may be stronger than most.
And with her knees up on the glove compartment
She took out her barrettes
And her hair spilled out like root beer
And she popped her gum
And arched her back
Hell, Marysville ain't nothing
But a wide spot in the road
Some nights my heart pounds like thunder
Don't know why
It don't explode….
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Falling James in the Tahoe mud
Stick around to tell us all the tale
Well he fell in love with a Gun Street girl
And now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail
Dancing in the Birmingham jail
He took a hundred dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe
Brought a brand new Michigan twenty-gauge
He got all liquored up on that road house corn
Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette
A hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette
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The cradle wants a baby
Kitchen wants a pan
The heart wants a certain kind of lover if it can
The ocean wants a sailor
The gun wants a hand
Money wants a spender
And the road wants a man
I'll turn my face to the highway
I'll turn my face to the highway
I'll turn my face to the highway
And I'll turn my back on you
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And it's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
Now I lay me down to sleep
I hear the sirens in the street
All my dreams are made of chrome
I have no way to get back home
I'd rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe
And you could throw my dreams out in the street
And let the rain make 'em grow
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The piano’s been drinking,
Not me.
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In Regina Saskatchewan. Anyone stateside who can send a wellness check to OPK's house?
Love visiting the really cold weather cities in the US and Canada. I actually am in pretty good shape for a 48-year-old, but the people here are pasty white and a little pudgy because you can't go outside for about 8 months out of the year. So they think I look exotic and painfully skinny.
Cross country skiing is great exercise and can be an amazing, peaceful, rejuvenating experience. Of course, I'm envisioning recreational trail skiing here, not the stuff you see in the Olympics.
Fortunately, this is just typed, so you don't have to hear a thing.
All night long on the broken glass
Livin' in a medicine chest
Mediterranean hotel
Back sprawled across a roll top desk
The monkey rode the blade on an overhead fan
They paint the donkey blue if you pay
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
My baby's coming home today
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Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods
You gotta meet me by the fall down tree
Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid
and I know they'll come lookin for me boys
and I know they'll come a-lookin for me
Got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
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Well the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws.
And you're east of east Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause.
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror.
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here.
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