Romeo Is Bleeding - Blue Valentine-Tom Waits

[ti:Romeo Is Bleeding] [ar:Tom Waits] [al:Blue Valentine] [offset:0] [00:17.66]Romeo is bleeding but not so as you'd notice [00:21.84]He's over on 18hh street as usual [00:24.59] [00:25.53]Lookin' so hard against the hood of his car [00:29.59]And puttin' out a cigarette in his hand [00:33.21]And for all the pachucos at the pumps [00:35.86]At romeros paint and body [00:38.07]They all seein' how far they can spit [00:39.57]Well it was just another night [00:41.89]But how they're huddled in the brake lights of a 58 belair [00:45.83]And listenin' to how romeo killed a sherrif his knife [00:49.57]And they all jump when they hear the sirens [00:52.40]But romeo just laughs and says [00:54.53]All the racket in the world ain't never gonna [00:56.89]Save that coppers ass [00:58.01] [00:58.70]He'll never see another summertime for gunnin' down my brother [01:02.70]And leavin' him like a dog beneath a car without his knife [01:06.89]And romeo says hey man gimme a cigarette [01:08.64]And they all reach for their pack [01:10.70]And frankie lights it for him and pats him on the back [01:14.01] [01:14.76]And throws bottle at a milk truck [01:17.08]And as it breaks he grabs his nuts [01:19.07]And they all know they could be just like romeo [01:20.91]If they only had the guts [01:22.35] [01:23.17]But romeo is bleeding but nobody can tell [01:26.29] [01:27.35]And he sings along with the radio [01:29.41]With a bullet in his chest [01:31.54]And he combs back his fenders [01:33.47]And they all agree its clear [01:35.48]That every thing is cool now that romeos here [01:38.76] [01:39.82]But romeo is bleeding [01:41.65]And he winces now and then and he leans against [01:46.03]The car doors and feels the blood in his shoes [01:48.83]And someones crying in the phone booth [01:51.03]At the 5 points by thestore [01:53.16]Romeo starts his engine [01:54.75]And wipes the blood off the door [01:56.63] [02:00.54]And he brodys through the signal [02:02.41]With the radio full blast [02:04.38]Leavin' the boys there hikin' up there chinos [02:06.69]And they all try to stand like romeo [02:10.32]Beneath the moon cut like a sickle [02:12.21]And they're talkin' now in spanish about there hero [02:15.66] [03:19.46]But romeo is bleeding as he gives the man his ticket [03:23.27]And he climbs to the balcony at the movies [03:27.23]And he'll die without a wimper [03:28.99]Like every heros dream [03:31.47]Just an angel with a bullet [03:32.78]And cagney on the screen