Lyrics: Straight To The Top (rhumba) Album: Frank’s Wild Years Artist: Tom Waits   Written by tom waits and greg cohen I’m going straight to the top Oh yea up where the air is Fresh and clean I’m going straight…

Lyrics: Fumblin’ With The Blues Album: The Heart Of Saturday Night Artist: Tom Waits   Friday left me fumblin’ with the blues And it’s hard to win when you always lose Because the nightspots spend your spirit Beat your head…

Lyrics: The One that Got Away Album: Small Change Artist: Tom Waits   Well this gigolo’s jumping salty, ain’t no trade out on the streets, Half past the unlucky, and the hawk’s a front-row seat Dressed in full orchestration, stage-door…

Lyrics: Old Shoes Album: The Early Years, Vol. 2 Artist: Tom Waits   Well i’m singing this song, cause it’s time it was sung I’ve been putting it off for a while, Cause it’s harder by now, and the truth…

Lyrics: Trouble’s Braids Album: Swordfishtrombones Artist: Tom Waits   Well i pulled on trouble’s braids And i hid in the briars Out by the quick mud Stayin’ away from the main roads Passin’ out wolf tickets Downwind from the blood…

Lyrics: Frank’s Song Album: The Early Years Artist: Tom Waits   That woman will take you, that woman will break you That woman will make you something you’ve never seen That woman’s got claws, that woman’s got laws Now look…

Lyrics: In The Colosseum Album: Bone Machine Artist: Tom Waits   (tom waits/k. brennan) The women all control their men With razors and with wrists And the princess squeezes grape juice On a torrid bloody kiss What will you be…

Lyrics: Gin Soaked Boy Album: Swordfishtrombones Artist: Tom Waits   I got a belly full of you And that leavenworth stuff Now i’m gonna get out And i’m gonna get tough You been lying to me How could you crawl…

Lyrics: Shore Leave Album: Swordfishtrombones Artist: Tom Waits   Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart I rolled down the national stroll And with a big fat paycheck Strapped to my hip sack And a shore leave wristwatch…

Lyrics: Diamonds On My Windshield Album: The Heart Of Saturday Night Artist: Tom Waits   Diamonds on my windshield Tears from heaven Pulling into town on the interstate Pulling a steel train in the rain The wind bites my cheek…