Burma Shave-Tom Waits

[ti:Burma Shave] [ar:Tom Waits] [al:Bounced Checks] [offset:0] [00:03.53]Artist：tom waits [00:05.96]Songs Title：burma shave [00:18.29]Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders [00:33.73]Of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks [00:47.88]And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through [01:00.65]He a was juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave [01:08.30]But cops the would never think to look in [01:12.62]Burma shave [01:23.92]And the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone [01:32.72]He didnt seem to be like any guy shed ever known [01:40.53]He kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back [01:48.12]She says Im a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat [01:59.29]How far are you going he said depends on what you mean [02:07.15]He says Im going thataway just as long as its paved [02:16.45] [02:24.13]I guess youd Im say on my way to [02:28.48]Burma shave [02:39.45]And her knees up on the glove compartment [02:42.50] [02:44.59]Took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer [02:52.14]And she popped her gum and arched her back [02:58.16]Hell marysville aint nothing but a wide spot in the road [03:06.65]Some night my heart pounds just like thunder [03:10.52]I dont know why it dont explode [03:15.78]Cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave [03:23.21]take And Id my rather chances out in [03:27.28]Burma shave [03:39.10]Presleys what I go by why dont you change the station [03:46.34]Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror [03:55.47]Mister anywhere you point this thing [03:59.71]Has got to beat the hell out of the sting [04:04.58]Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin [04:14.00]And so drill me a hole with a barber pole [04:22.55]Im jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight [04:29.98]Why dont you have another swig [04:34.60]And pass that car if youre so brave [04:39.46]I wanna get there before the sun comes up in [04:43.83]Burma shave [04:54.75]And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed [04:59.56] [05:01.62]Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine [05:09.54]Just a nickels worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved [05:17.78]Lie swindled from them on the way to [05:22.35]Burma shave [05:33.52]And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow [05:41.57]Up against the car door on the shot gun side [05:48.68]And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she [05:54.55]had Still on her shades [05:57.54]They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of [06:03.59] [06:04.47]Burma shave