Wrong Side of the Road
- Tom Waits
Put
a dead cat on the railroad tracks
when
the wolf bains blooming by the tressel
and
get the eyeball of a rooster
and
the stones from a ditch
and
wash em down with bilge water
and
you say you'll never snitch
take
the buttons from a yellow jacket
the
feafrom a buzzard
and
thr blood from a bounty hunters cold black heart
catch
the tears of a widow
in a
thimble made of glass
tell
your mama and papa
they
can kick your ass
poison
all the water in the wishin well
and
hang all them scarecrows from a sycamore tree
burn
down all those honeymoons
put
em in a pillow case
and
wait next to the switch blades
at the
amusement park for me
strangle
all the christmas carols
scratch
out all your prayers
tie
em up with barbed wire
and
push them down the stairs
and
i'll whittle you a pistol
for
keeping nightmares of the blinds
those
sunabitches always seem to sneake up from behind
syphon
all the gas from your daddys pickup truck
fill
up johnnys t bird
i got
a couple of bucks
put
a little perfume and ribbon in your hair
careful
that you don't wake up the hounds
tear
a bolt of lightning
of the
side of the sky
and
throw it in the cedar chest
if you
want to tell me why
bring
the gear shift knob from a 49 merc
and
lay down here beside me
let
me hold you in the dirt
and
you'll tremble as the flames
tear
the throat out of the night
sink
your teeth into my shoulder
dig
your nails into my back
tell
that little girl to let go of my sleeve
you'll
be a woman when i catch you
as you
fall in love with me
then
with my double barrel shotgun
and
a whole box of shells
we'll
celebrate the 4 of july
we'll
do 100 mph
spendin
someone elses dough
and
we'll drive all the way to reno
on the
wrong side of the road