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Tom Waits - Borma Shave Lyrics

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  • licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders
  • of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks
  • and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through
  • he was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave
  • but the cops would never think to look in
  • burma shave
  • and the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone
  • he didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known
  • he kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back
  • she says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
  • how far are you going he said depends on what you mean
  • he says i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved
  • i guess you'd say i'm on my way to
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  • and her knees up on the glove compartment
  • took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
  • and she popped her gum and arched her back
  • hell marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road
  • some night my heart pounds just like thunder
  • i don't know why it don't explode
  • cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave
  • and i'd rather take my chances out in
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  • presley's what i go by why don't you change the station
  • count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror
  • mister anywhere you point this thing
  • has got to beat the hell out of the sting
  • of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin
  • and so drill me a hole with a barber pole
  • i'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight
  • why don't you have another swig
  • and pass that car if you're so brave
  • i wanna get there before the sun comes up in
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  • and the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
  • smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
  • just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
  • lie swindled from them on the way to
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  • and the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
  • up against the car door on the shot gun side
  • and when they pulled her from the wreck you know she
  • still had on her shades
  • they say that dreams are growing wild just this side of
  • burma shave

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