Genius Lyrics
|
|
Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow
|
This song is written from the perspective of a soldier who’s away at war. It takes the loose form of a letter written home, or sort of a monologue about goings-on.
|
|
Phoebe Bridgers – Day After Tomorrow
|
[Verse 1] / I got your letter today / And I miss you all so much here / I can't wait to see you all / And I'm counting the days here / [Chorus] / I still believe that there's gold
|
|
Phoebe Bridgers Covers Tom Waits On New Song “Day After Tomorrow”
|
All proceeds from the cover go to charity.
|
|
Tom Waits – Martha
|
The last song on the A side of Waits' first album Closing Time. It was covered the same year by Tim Buckley, who was a more established artist at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/
|
|
Tom Waits – Trampled Rose
|
Long way going to get my medicine / Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren / Piano from a window played / Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday / Found it in the street / At first, I did
|
|
Tom Waits – Sins of My Father
|
God said don't give me your tin horn prayers / Don't buy roses off the street down there / Took it all and took the dirt road home / Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
|
|
Tom Waits – Metropolitan Glide
|
Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? / Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal / They all know how to kick it in Cal / They're playing this dope and this money tune / Dancing baby
|
|
Tom Waits – Top of the Hill
|
I'm gonna get me on the ride up / I'm gonna get me - can I have a little more on my voice? / I'm gonna get me on the ride up / Top the top of the hill / I'm only goin' to the top
|
|
Tom Waits – Green Grass
|
[Verse 1] / Lay your head where my heart used to be / Hold the earth above me / Lay down in the green grass / Remember when you loved me / [Verse 2] / Come closer, don't be shy
|
|
Tom Waits – Step Right Up
|
Step right up, step right up, step right up / Everyone's a winner, bargains galore / That's right, you too can be the proud owner / Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
|
|
Tom Waits – Make It Rain
|
She took all my money and my best friend / You know the story, here it comes again / I have no pride, I have no shame / You gotta make it rain / Make it rain / Since you're gone
|
|
Tom Waits – Don’t Go into That Barn
|
This song seems to have been based on the NY Times account of a slave jail in Northern KY, just upriver from Cincinnati.
Even now, slowed by a stroke and 70 years past his
|
|
Tom Waits – Baby Gonna Leave Me
|
Well I stood on the corner till my feet got wet / I stood by the faucet 'till the sink filled up / I stood by the window until the moon came up / My baby bought a ticket long as my
|
|
Tom Waits – Shake It
|
Strip Poker Motel / Got a small blue tail / Hot ice, cold cash / I never been no good at staying out of jail / Wheel spin, roulette / Who's giving, don't get / Ripped shirt, black
|
|
Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag
|
[Verse 1] / Well I learned the trade from Piggy Knowles / Sing Sing Tommy Shay Boys / God used me as a hammer, boys / To beat his weary drum today / [Chorus] / Hoist that rag
|
|
Tom Waits – Dead and Lovely
|
The lyrics of this song narrate the tragic death of a naive, “middle-class girl” who falls in love with a man of questionable moral character.
|
|
Tom Waits – How's It Gonna End
|
Listen to this song for creative inspiration. The moody, atmospheric tone & all these disparate, stream-of-consciousness threads are bound to spark SOMETHING.
|
|
Tom Waits – Circus
|
We put up our tent on a dark green knoll / Outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump / Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel and her Marvelous Pigs in Satin / We
|
|
Genius Lists – Songs of Eulogy and Bereavement
|
This may seem a morbid subject for a song list, but death is something we all must deal with. Whether you see your own death looming or you’re trying to come to grips with the loss
|
|
Freddie Mercury – Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow (Special Edition)
|
[Verse 1] / You had to kill the conversation / You always had the upper hand / Got caught in love / And stepped in sinking sand / You had to go and ruin all our plans! / [Bridge 1
|
|
89egypt
|
i like music and stuff
|