(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Everything you can think of is true Before the ocean was blue We were lost in a flood Run red with your blood Nigerian
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(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) They bought a round for the sailor And they heard his tale Of a world that was so far away And a song that we'd never heard
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland And Tell me who
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) (Pretend German) Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Hell above and Heaven below All the trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet under ground
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Did you hear the news about Edward? On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman's face or a young girl?
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) I knew one day One, one, two, one, two, three Well my mama didn?t want me On the day I was born I was born without a body
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) You haven't looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you
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