Your Hope Shines Lyrics

(written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) If you want money in your pocket And a top hat on your head A hot meal on your table And a blanket on your bed Well today is grey skie...Read Full Lyrics

I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'll break the jackpot...Read Full Lyrics

T'was a cold wintry night Not a star was in sight And he north wind was howling down the line Went a brave engineer With a sweetheart so dear With an order to pull Old # 9. His hea...Read Full Lyrics

Cross your heart gently The best days are with us Don't be dark-hearted You'll just disappear Trust you won't stumble I trust you won't walk blind Trust you won't miss What has ne...Read Full Lyrics

I waited all day And it seemed like one day too many To find out who knows what And why all the gallons are hanging Deadmen are sneaking Over thr hills Something forgotten Is going...Read Full Lyrics

The graveyard sits by the Prescott mill. Where my old man lost his arm, And for that I was ready to kill. But he just looked tired, And said: "Don't bury me near that place...Read Full Lyrics

You're an open gate On a barbed wire fence Swingin' back and forth You know it scares me half to death Funny how it moved From a blessin' to a curse Ain't it funny how we moved Fro...Read Full Lyrics

Gettin' stupid... Crooked feet A pinball on... Scott walker street Gettin' stupid... In a bar Not goin' home... Til the band plays "superstar" Everything's on the edge of everythin...Read Full Lyrics

I don't care how long it might last Don't care anymore Don't care about that I don't care how long it might take I'm still wide awake Out walkin' late Till I reach you Wait until...Read Full Lyrics

(Well) I'm going away to leave you And I'm going away for a while Well, I'm coming back to you someday When I've gone ten thousand miles Where the storms are on the ocean And the ...Read Full Lyrics