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Tom Waits - Burma 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 didnt seem to be like any guy shed ever known
  • He kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back
  • She says Im a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
  • How far are you going he said depends on what you mean
  • He says Im going thataway just as long as its paved
  • I guess youd say Im on my way to
  • Burma shave
  • 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 aint nothing but a wide spot in the road
  • Some night my heart pounds just like thunder
  • I dont know why it dont explode
  • Cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave
  • And Id rather take my chances out in
  • Burma shave
  • Presleys what I go by why dont 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
  • Im jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight
  • Why dont you have another swig
  • And pass that car if youre so brave
  • I wanna get there before the sun comes up in
  • Burma shave
  • And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
  • Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
  • Just a nickels worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
  • Lie swindled from them on the way to
  • Burma shave
  • 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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