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Tom Waits – Anywhere I Lay My Head
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My head is a-spinnin' round / My heart is in my shoes / I went and set the Thames on fire / Now I must come back down / She's laughing in her sleeve, boys / I can feel it in my
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Scarlett Johansson – Anywhere I Lay My Head
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My head is spinning round / My heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / Now I must come back down / She's laughing in her sleeve boys / I can feel it in
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Bomb the Music Industry! – Anywhere I Lay My Head
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My head is a-spinnin' round / My heart is in my shoes / I went and set the Thames on fire / Now I must come back down / She's laughing in her sleeve, boys / I can feel it in my
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Tom Waits – Falling Down
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From Tom Waits' live album Big Time, “Falling Down” was actually a studio recording. Waits plays organ on the track.
This song was later covered by actress Scarlett Johansson for
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Scarlett Johansson – Anywhere I Lay My Head (Rhapsody Originals)
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My head is spinning round / My heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / Now I must come back down / She's laughing in her sleeve boys / I can feel it in
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Scarlett Johansson – Yesterday Is Here
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If you want money in your pocket / And a top hat on your head / And a hot meal on your table / And a blanket on your bed / Well, today is gray skies / Tomorrow is tears / You'll
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Scarlett Johansson (Ft. David Bowie) – Fannin Street
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There's a crooked street / In Houston town / It's a well born path / I've traveled down / Now there's ruin in my name / I wish I never got off the train / I wished I'd listened
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Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Inside a broken clock / Splashing the wine / With all the rain dogs / Taxi, we'd rather walk / Huddle a doorway with the rain dogs / For I am a rain dog too / [Chorus 1
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Tom Waits – 9th & Hennepin (2023 Remaster)
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Well, it's 9th and Hennepin / All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes / And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky / Like a tarp thrown all over this / And the broken
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Tom Waits – Green Grass
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[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
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Scarlett Johansson (Ft. David Bowie) – Falling Down
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[Verse 1] / I've come five hundred miles just to see your halo / Come from St. Petersburg, Scarlett and me / When I open my eyes, I was blind as can be / And to give a man luck, he
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Tom Waits – Tango Till They're Sore
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[Verse 1] / Well you play that tarantella, all the hounds will start to roar / The boys all go to hell and then the Cubans hit the floor / They drive along the pipeline, they tango
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Tom Waits – Hang Down Your Head
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Hush a wild violet / Hush a band of gold / Hush you're in a story / I heard somebody told / Tear the promise from my heart / Tear my heart today / You have found another / Baby, I
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Scarlett Johansson – Town With No Cheer
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Well, it's hotter than blazes, and all the long faces / There'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier / There'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo / From Melbourne to
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Scarlett Johansson – I Don't Wanna Grow Up
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When I'm lyin' in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up / Nothin' ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up / How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing
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Tom Waits – Walking Spanish
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He's got himself a homemade special / You know his glass is full of sand / And it feels just like a jaybird / The way it fits into his hand / He rolled a blade up in his trick
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Tom Waits – Hang Down Your Head
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Hush a wild violet / Hush a band of gold / Hush you're in a story / I heard somebody told / Tear the promise from my heart / Tear my heart today / You have found another / Baby, I
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Tom Waits – Jockey Full of Bourbon
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[Verse 1] / Edna Milton in a drop-dead suit / Dutch Pink on a downtown train / Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot / I'm in the corner on the pouring rain / Sixteen men on a
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Tom Waits – 9th & Hennepin
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A spoken word track off Waits' 80’s classic Rain Dogs. While this song’s titular location is in Minneapolis, Tom Waits has explained:
Most of the imagery is from New York. It’s
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Tom Waits – Cemetery Polka
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Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon / Independent as a hog on ice / He's a big shot down there at the slaughterhouse / He plays accordion for Mr. Weiss / Uncle Biltmore and Uncle William
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Tom Waits – Gun Street Girl
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Tom Waits on the Rain Dogs Island Promo Tape, 1985:
Gun Street Girl is about a guy who’s having trouble with the law and he traces all of these events back to this girl he met on
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Tom Waits – Time
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[Verse 1] / Well the smart money's on Harlow / And the moon is in the street / The shadow boys are breaking all the laws / And you're east of East St. Louis / And the wind is
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Tom Waits – Diamonds & Gold
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One two three / One two three / One / Broken glass and the rusty nails / Where the wild violets grow / Say goodbye to the railroad and the mad dogs of summer / And everything that
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Tom Waits – Downtown Train (2023 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Outside another yellow moon / Has punched a hole in the nighttime, yes / I climb through the window and down to the street / I'm shining like a new dime / The downtown
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Tom Waits – Clap Hands
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Sane, sane, they're all insane / The fireman's blind, the conductor's lame / A Cincinnati jacket and a sad luck dame / Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain / Clap
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Tom Waits – Singapore
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We sail tonight for Singapore / We’re all as mad as hatters here / I’ve fallen for a tawny moor / Took off to the Land of Nod / Drank with all the Chinamen / Walked the sewers of
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Tom Waits – Downtown Train
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Tom Waits' “Downtown Train” became a Grammy-winning #3 hit for Rod Stewart in 1989, and has also been covered by the likes of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bob Seger and Everything But
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Tom Waits – Big Black Mariah
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Tom Waits himself said about this song:
A Mariah is – originally it was the woman that ran some kind of a cathouse in New Orleans I guess and every time it got popped they figured
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Scarlett Johansson – Green Grass
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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 / Come closer don't be shy / Stand beneath a rainy sky
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Tom Waits – I'll Shoot the Moon
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I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you, baby / I'll be the pennies on your eyes for you, baby / I want to take you out to the fair / Here is a red rose ribbon for your
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Tom Waits – Blind Love
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Now you're gone / And it's hotels and whiskey and sad luck dames / And I don't care if they miss me / I never remember their names / They say if you get far enough away / You'll be
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