Tom Waits

Alice

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 I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice

I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice

Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
There's only Alice


Blue Valentine

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 Theres
A Warrant Out For My Arrest
Got Me Checkin In My Rearview Mirror
And I'm Always On The Run
Thats Why I Changed 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
Is The Thistle In The Kiss
And The Burgler That Can Break A Roses Neck
It's The Tatooed Broken Promise
That I 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 Eulogy
Why Do I Save All Of This Madness
In The Nightstand Drawer
There To Haunt Upon My Shoulders
Baby I Know
I'd Be Luckier To Walk Around Everywhere I Go
With A Blind And Broken Heart
That Sleeps Beneath My Lapel

She Sends Me My Blue Valentines
To Remind Me Of My Cardinal Sin
I Can Never Wash The Guilt
Or Get These Bloodstains Off My Handa
And It Takes A Lot Of Whiskey
To Take This Nightmares Go Away
And I Cut My Bleedin Heart Out Every Nite
And I Die A Little More On Each St. Valentines Day
Remember That I Promised I Would
Write You...
These Blue Valentines
Blue Valentines
Blue Valentines


Dead and Lovely


She was a middle class girl
She was in over her head
She thought she would
Stand up in the deep end

He had a bullet proof smile
He had money to burn
She thought she had the moon
In her pocket

But now she's dead
She's so dead
Forever dead and lovely now

I've always been told to
Remember this...
Don't let a fool kiss you
Never marry for love

He was hard to impress
He knew everyone's secrets
He wore her on his arm
Just like jewelry

He never gave but he got
He kept her on a leash
He's not the kind of wheel
You fall asleep at

But now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

Come closer, look deeper
You've fallen fast
Just like a plane on a
Stormy sea

She made up someone to be
She made up somewhere to be from
This is one business in the
World where that's no
Problem at all

Everything that is left
They will only plow under
Soon every one you know
Will be gone

And now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

Now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

I've always been told to
Remember this...
Don't let a kiss fool you
Never marry for love

Everything has its price [2x]
What's more romantic
Then dying in the moonlight?

Now they're all watching the sea
What's lost can never be broken
Her roots were sweet
But they were so shallow

And now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

And now she's dead
Forever dead
And she's so dead and lovely now