Tom Waits - Alice

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01. Alice 02. Everything You Can Think 03. Flowers Grave 04. No One Knows I‘m Gone 05. Kommienezuepadt 06. Poor Edward 07. Table Top Joe 08. Lost In The Harbor 09. We‘re All Mad Here 10. Watch Her Disappear 11. Reeperbahn 12. I‘m Still Here 13. Fish & Bird 14. Barcarolle 15. Fawn



It‘s dreamy weather we‘re on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice

And so a secret kiss Brings madness with the bliss And I will think of this When I‘m dead in my grave Set me adrift and I‘m lost over there And I must be insane To go skating on your name I disappear in your name And by tracing it twice But you must wait for me I fell through the ice Somewhere across the sea Of Alice There‘s a wreck of a ship Your hair is like meadow grass on And so a secret kiss the tide Brings madness with the bliss And the raindrops on my window And I will think of this And the ice in my drink When I‘m dead in my grave Baby all I can think of is Alice Set me adrift and I‘m lost over there Arithmetic arithmetock And I must be insane Turn the hands back on the clock To go skating on your name How does the ocean rock the boat? And by tracing it twice How did the razor find my throat? I fell through the ice The only strings that hold me here Of Alice Are tangled up around the pier There‘s only Alice



Everything you can think of is true Before the ocean was blue We were lost in a flood Run red with your blood Nigerian skeleton crew Everything you can think of is true The dish ran away with the spoon Dig deep in your heart for that little red glow We’re decomposing as we go Everything you can think of is true And fishes make wishes on you We’re fighting our way up dreamland’s spine Red flamingos and expensive wine Everything you can think of is true The baby’s asleep in your shoe Your teeth are buildings with yellow doors Your eyes are fish on a creamy shore



Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower‘s grave? Who will say a prayer? Will I meet a China rose there in dreamland? Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland? Are these days forever and always? And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? And if we are to die tonight Another rose will bloom

For a faded rose Will I be the one that you save? I love when it showers But no one puts flowers On a flower‘s grave As one rose blooms and another will die It‘s always been that way I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower‘s grave And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower‘s grave



Hell above and Heaven below All the trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet under ground The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I’m gone Live me golden tell me dark Hide from Graveyard John The moon is full here every night And I can bathe here in his light The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I’m gone



Kommienezuspadt And we can‘t be late Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt And we can‘t be late And we can‘t be late And we can‘t be late Kommiene, Kommiene Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt

Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha Kommienezuspadt

And we can‘t be late And we can‘t be late And we can‘t be late Sei punktlich Sei punktlich And we can‘t be late Kommienezuspadt And we can‘t be late Kommiene, kommiene, kommiene, And we can‘t be late kommiene Kommienezuspadt



Did you hear the news about Edward? On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman‘s face or a young girl? They said to remove it would kill him So poor Edward was doomed The face could laugh and cry It was his devil twin And at night she spoke to him Things heard only in hell But they were impossible to separate Chained together for life Finally the bell tolled his doom He took a suite of rooms And hung himself and her from the balcony irons Some still believe he was freed from her But I knew her too well I say she drove him to suicide And took poor Edward to hell



I knew one day One, one, two, one, two, three Well my mama didn’t want me On the day I was born I was born without a body I got nothing but scorn But I always loved music All I had was my hands I dreamed I‘d be famous And I’d work at The Sands

Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now everyone knows Yeah I‘m Tabletop Joe

I had trouble with the pedals But I had a strong left hand And I could play Stravinsky On a baby grand I said, ‘I’m gonna join the circus Cause that’s where I belong’ So I went to Coney Island I was singing this song

Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now everyone knows, yeah Tabletop Joe

They gave me top billing In the Dreamland show I had my own orchestra Starring Tabletop Joe And the man without a body Singing, Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Proved everyone wrong Now everyone will know I was rich and I was famous That I‘m Tabletop Joe I was where I belonged, yeah

Take it home boy



Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there‘s never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need wool For weaving their baby‘s new clothes But nobody has any wool And the sheep are all lost in the harbour Lost in the harbour And over here they want diamonds to wear But there aren‘t any here And over there everyone‘s hiding their tears But they‘re crying inside And the wall won‘t come down Till they‘re no longer afraid of themselves And if you don‘t believe me ask yourselves And then I can come down to the harbour Down to the harbour And then I will fill the ocean back up with my tears I still have a couple more years And then I can come back to the harbour Down to the harbour



You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the footsteps of the dead We‘re all mad here As the devil sticks his flag into the mud Mrs Carol has run off with Reverend Judd Hell is such a lonely place And your big expensive face will never last And you‘ll die with the rose still on your lips And in time the heart-shaped bone that was your hips And the worms, they will climb the rugged ladder of your spine We‘re all mad here And my eyeballs roll this terrible terrain And we‘re all inside a decomposing train And your eyes will die like fish And the shore of your face will turn to bone



Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled ebony curls Moving in a yellow bedroom light The air is wet with sound The faraway yelping of a wounded dog And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat A light goes on and the door opens And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air I hear your champagne laugh You wear two lavender orchids One in your hair and one on your hip A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo And I hear a banjo tango And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree And I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared



Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with fools The memories are short but the tales are long When you‘re in the Reeperbahn Oh, they called her Rosie when she was a girl For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls When she would laugh the river would run She said she‘d be a comedian Oh what a pity, oh what a shame When she said, ‘come calling’, nobody came Now her bright red cheeks are painted on And she‘s laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn

Now little Hans was always strange Wearing womens underthings His father beat him but he wouldn‘t change He ran off with a man one day Now his lingerie is all the rage In the black on every page His father proudly calls his name Down there in the Reeperbahn Now if you‘ve lost your inheritance And all you‘ve left is common sense And you‘re not too picky about the crowd you keep Or the mattress where you sleep Behind every window, behind every door The apple has gone but there‘s always the core And the seeds will sprout up right through the floor Down there in the Reeperbahn Down there in the Reeperbahn Down there in the Reeperbahn



You haven‘t looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for You haven‘t looked at me that way in years Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear Someone turn the lights back off I‘ll love you til all time is gone You haven‘t looked at me that way in years But I‘m still here



They bought a round for the sailor And they heard his tale Of a world that was so far away And a song that we‘d never heard A song of a little bird That fell in love with a whale He said, ‚You cannot live in the ocean‘ And she said to him ‚You never can live in the sky‘ But the ocean is filled with tears And the sea turns into a mirror There‘s a whale in the moon when it‘s clear And a bird on the tide

So tell me that you will wait for me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I‘ll never sail back to the time But I‘ll always pretend you‘re mine Though I know that we both must part You can live in my heart Please don‘t cry Let me dry your eyes

And tell me that you will wait for me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I‘ll never sail back to the time But I‘ll always pretend that you‘re Please don‘t cry mine Let me dry your eyes I know that we both must part You can live in my heart



A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone into town To get candy and we are alone in the house here And your eyes fall down on me

The girls all knit in the shade Before the baby is made And the branches bend down To the ground here to swing on I‘m lost in the blond summer grass And the train whistle blows And the carnival goes Till there‘s only the tickets and crows here And the grass will all grow back

And I belong only to you The water is filling my shoes In the wine of my heart there‘s a stone In a well made of bone That you bring to the pond And the branches spell ‚Alice‘ And I‘m here in your pocket And I belong only to you Curled up in a dollar And the chain from your watch around my neck And I‘ll stay right here until it‘s time



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