โหลดเพลง mp3 Burma-Shave - Tom Waits

Burma-Shave - Tom Waits
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 it's 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 only stopping here

to get some gasoline

I'm guess I'm going thataway

just as long as it's paved

I guess you'd say i'm 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 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
Burma shave

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 morning

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 Burma shave

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 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