Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues-Nina Simone

[ti:Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues] [ar:Nina Simone] [al:To Love Somebody/Here Comes Th] [by:] [offset:0] [00:10.57]When you're lost in the rain in Juarez [00:13.45] [00:14.88]And it's Easter time too [00:17.56] [00:20.50]And your gravity fails [00:22.87]And negativity don't pull you through [00:27.90] [00:30.52]Don't put on any airs [00:32.65] [00:33.64]When you're down on rue morgue avenue [00:37.45] [00:39.95]They got some hungry women there [00:42.88]And they really make a mess out of you [00:46.93] [00:55.17]Now if you see Saint Annie [00:57.42] [00:59.48]Please tell her thanks a lot [01:01.47] [01:05.03]I cannot move [01:07.53]My fingers are all in a knot [01:11.83] [01:14.95]I don't have the strength [01:17.51] [01:18.26]To get up and take another shot [01:21.82] [01:24.81]And my best friend my doctor [01:27.74]Won't even say what it is I have got [01:31.61] [01:40.47]Sweet Melinda [01:42.22] [01:43.41]The peasants call her the goddess of gloom [01:47.71] [01:50.52]She speaks good English [01:52.58] [01:53.20]And she invites you up into her room [01:56.76] [01:59.69]And you're so kind [02:01.69]And careful not to go to her too soon [02:06.25] [02:08.80]And she takes your voice [02:11.74]And leaves you howling at the moon [02:15.73] [02:29.21]Up on housing project hill [02:31.58] [02:33.08]It's either fortune or fame [02:36.20] [02:38.82]You must pick one or the other [02:41.06] [02:42.06]Though neither of them [02:44.00]Are to be what they claim [02:45.56] [02:48.93]If you're looking to get silly [02:50.80] [02:51.98]You better go back from where you came [02:54.54] [02:58.12]Because the cops don't need you [03:01.11]And man they expect the same [03:04.98] [03:14.15]Now all the authorities [03:15.77] [03:17.71]They just stand around and boast [03:21.08] [03:23.20]Hew they blackmailed the sergeant at arms [03:26.88]Into leaving his post [03:29.69] [03:32.82]And picking up angel who [03:35.63] [03:36.43]Just arrived here from the coast [03:39.36] [03:42.29]Who looked so fine at first [03:44.48] [03:45.23]But left looking like a ghost [03:50.02] [04:01.75]I started out on burgundy [04:04.50] [04:06.56]But soon hit the harder stuff [04:09.67] [04:12.85]Everybody said they'd stand behind me [04:15.40] [04:16.71]When the game got rough [04:19.33] [04:21.02]But the joke was on me [04:23.33] [04:24.39]There was nobody even there to bluff [04:27.88] [04:30.32]I'm going back to New York City [04:33.37]I do believe I've had enough