Don't Wait For Tom (Over The Rhine) - Tom Waits.mp3

[00:21.33]He’s got the hands of a blind piano player
[00:24.83]He’s got a feel for the dark like a soothsayer
[00:28.70]He takes a little bow and tips his fedora
[00:32.38]Shouts like he’s gonna save Sodom and Gomorrah
[00:36.00]Workin’ for the circus X railroad bum
[00:39.43]Carnival barker for kingdom dot come
[00:42.92]Dusty ol’ Gibson opposable thumb
[00:46.48]Bangs out the rhythm on a 50-gallon drum
[00:50.04]Don’t wait for Tom
[00:53.49]Tom’s long gone he’s already moved on
[00:56.61]Don’t wait for Tom
[01:00.23]I saw an ol’ ’55 Buick just before dawn
[01:04.03]I said Hey hey Tom
[01:07.46]The sun’s comin’ up you got your wipers on
[01:10.96]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[01:14.52]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[01:18.07]Is it rainin’ just around your bend
[01:21.56]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[01:39.91]Sittin’ in a corner with his pet muskrat
[01:43.03]Tossin’ his cards into an old man’s hat
[01:46.59]He grins at the girls and they always grin back
[01:50.08]He bets an old waltz he could get ‘em in the sack
[01:53.70]He makes his own music from the bell of a ‘bone
[01:57.19]A waitress’s falsie and a railroad phone
[02:00.75]Bobs on his knees to an old tarantella
[02:04.18]South of the border he stole it from a fella
[02:07.67]Don’t wait for Tom
[02:11.24]Tom’s long gone he’s already moved on
[02:14.60]Don’t wait for Tom
[02:18.10]I saw an ol’ ’55 Buick just before dawn
[02:21.69]I said Hey hey Tom
[02:25.43]The sun’s comin’ up you got your wipers on
[02:28.62]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[02:32.36]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[02:35.98]Is it rainin’ just around your bend
[02:39.54]Are you tryin' to make it rain again
[02:43.22]His triple-jointed juke fingers splay like a scarecrow
[02:46.84]He kneels down and whistles to a fallen sparrow
[02:50.15]His eyes light up when they wheel in a piano
[02:53.70]He reads a dirty joke out of an old Baptist hymnal
[02:57.38]He wears a tuxedo made of sackcloth and ashes
[03:00.63]Has a tattoo of a girl who can bat her eyelashes
[03:04.06]Down on the river he was fishin’ with a sword
[03:07.93]He knocked off John the Baptist for a word from the Lord
[03:11.49]He takes his coffee with the blood of a turnip
[03:15.07]Blushes his cheeks with an Amsterdam tulip
[03:18.93]Choppin’ up a rooster for a pullet surprise
[03:21.92]If the gravy don’t getcha he’ll getcha with his eyes
[03:25.67]Don't wait
[03:32.69]Hey Tom tom
[03:36.62]Sun's comin' up you got your wipers on