The Woman Downstairs-The Handsome Family

[ti:The Woman Downstairs] [ar:The Handsome Family] [al:Live At Schubas Tavern] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Woman Downstairs - The Handsome Family [00:07.89]Chicago is where the woman downstairs [00:15.13] [00:16.17]Starved herself to death last summer [00:20.74] [00:24.17]Her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept [00:30.43] [00:31.93]With the gray rats out on the fire escape [00:37.13] [00:39.90]In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer [00:46.37] [00:47.65]And dreamed of laying down on the El tracks [00:52.57] [00:56.21]The trains roared by under smoke-gray skies [01:02.69] [01:03.95]Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird [01:07.91] [01:09.81]And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue [01:16.55] [01:18.87]The corner bars were full by noon [01:23.59] [01:26.10]And the old stewbums sliding down their stools [01:31.66] [01:34.95]Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs [01:39.73] [01:58.14]The woman downstairs lost all her hair [02:05.18] [02:06.46]And wore a beret in the laundryroom [02:11.88] [02:14.84]I borrowed her soap and bought her a Coke [02:20.46] [02:23.53]But she left it on a dryer [02:26.67] [02:30.46]She died in June weighing 82 [02:36.66] [02:38.36]Her boyfriend went back to New York [02:42.30] [02:45.60]The cops wandered through her dusty rooms [02:52.52] [02:54.21]One of them stole her TV [02:58.37] [03:00.19]And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue [03:07.53] [03:08.93]The corner bars were full by noon [03:14.44] [03:16.30]And the old stewbums sliding down their stools [03:21.94] [03:25.12]Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs