Diamonds On My Windshield Lyrics

(Waits/Brennan/Linkous) Well, she's as mean as a needle Don't get close to the heater I could be a shopkeeper We'll call an extra... She's about six foot four Now she's a wreckin...Read Full Lyrics

Thanks, uh... You know uh, this is weird uh... Most of us have dogs, allright? (applause) I don't know if it's a local thing where I live, or if it's everywhere, and I'm checking i...Read Full Lyrics

Red pants and the sugarman in the temple street gloom, Drinkin' chivas regal in a four dollar room, Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night, Sugarman says baby everything...Read Full Lyrics

(In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) Nighthawks at the diner Of Emma's 49er, there's a rendezvous Of strangers around the coffee urn tonight All the gypsy hacks, the insomniacs No...Read Full Lyrics

Late night and early morning low clouds With a chance of fog Chance of showers into the afternoon With variable high cloudiness And gusty winds, gusty winds At times around the cor...Read Full Lyrics

I’m going away I’m going away I’m going away I’m going away The cradle wants a baby Kitchen wants a pan The heart wants a certain kind of lover if it can The ocean wants a...Read Full Lyrics

Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift 'Neath the cement stroll Catch the midnight drift Cigar chewing charlie In that newspaper nest grifting hot horse tips On who's runn...Read Full Lyrics

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) 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, ...Read Full Lyrics

The flash pan hunter sways with the wind His rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet way have it's own wit Each cartridge comes with a warning Beware of elabora...Read Full Lyrics

Friday left me fumblin' with the blues And it's hard to win when you always lose Because the nightspots spend your spirit Beat your head against the wall Two dead ends and you've s...Read Full Lyrics