Invitation To The Blues-Tom Waits

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:08.16]Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula [00:30.63]Yesterday's deliveries tickets for the bachelors [00:36.12]She's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes [00:43.53]Well it's just an invitation to the blues [00:50.97]And you feel just like Cagney she looks like Rita Hayworth [00:55.47]At the counter of the Schwab's drugstore [01:00.15]You wonder if she might be single she's a loner and likes to mingle [01:09.87]Got to be patient try and pick up a clue [01:16.59]She said How you gonna like 'em over medium or scrambled [01:25.47]You say Anyway's the only way be careful not to gamble [01:32.91]On a guy with a suitcase and a ticket getting out of here [01:37.77]It's a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes [01:46.17]This ain't nothing but an invitation to the blues [01:54.15]But you can't take your eyes off her get another cup of java [02:00.48]It's just the way she pours it for you joking with the customers [02:07.92]Mercy mercy Mr Percy there ain't nothing back in Jersey [02:13.89]But a broken down jalopy of a man I left behind [02:21.27]And the dream that I was chasing and a battle with booze [02:29.01]And an open invitation to the blues [02:45.00]But she used to have a sugar daddy and a candy apple Caddy [02:58.02]And a bank account and everything accustomed to the finer things [03:17.22]He probably left her for a socialite and he didn't 'cept at night [03:38.07]And then he's drunk and never even told her that he cared [03:46.17]So they took the registration and the car keys and her shoes [03:55.83]And left her with an invitation to the blues [05:05.94]'Cause there's a Continental Trailways leaving local bus tonight good evening [05:22.44]You can have my seat I'm sticking round here for a while [05:32.43]Get me a room at the Squire the filling station's hiring [05:48.27]And I can eat here every night what the hell have I got to lose [06:07.29]Got a crazy sensation go or stay now I gotta choose [06:16.41]And I'll accept your invitation to the blues