Early Years Vol. 2 Lyrics

The Early Years Volume 2 - Lyrics
1	Hope I Dont Fall In Love With You
2	Ol' `55
3	Mockin' Bird
4	In Between Love
5	Blue Skies
6	Nobody
7	I Want You
8	Shiver Me Timbers
9	Grapefruit Moon
10	Diamonds On My Windshield
11	Please Call Me, Baby
12	So It Goes
13	Old Shoes

Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You (Tom Waits 1971)
Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me And I hope that I don't fall in love with you Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere And I wonder should I offer you a chair? Well if you sit down with this old clown I'll take that frown and break it Before the evening's gone away I think that we could make it And I hope that I don't fall in love with you Well I can see that you are lonesome just like me And it being late you'd like some some company Well now I've had two I look at you and you look back at me The guy you're with has up and split the chair next to you's free And I hope that you don't fall in love with me And I hope that you don't fall in love with me Well the night does funny things inside a man These old tom cat feelings you don't understand Well I turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette I wish I had the guts to bum one but we've never met And I hope that I don't fall in love with you Now it's closing time the music's fading out Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout I Turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round And I think that I just fell in love with you
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Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
(Tom Waits 1971)

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue
Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere
And I wonder should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown I'll take that frown and break it
Before the evening's gone away I think that we could make it
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Well I can see that you are lonesome just like me
And it being late you'd like some some company
Well now I've had two I look at you and you look back at me
The guy you're with has up and split the chair next to you's free
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me

And I hope that you don't fall in love with me

Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom cat feelings you don't understand
Well I turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette
I wish I had the guts to bum one but we've never met
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Now it's closing time the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout
I Turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found
I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you

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Ol' `55 (Tom Waits 1971)
My time went so quickly I went lickety-splickly out to my ol' `55 Pulled away slowly, feeling so holy God knows I was feeling alive And now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck Freeway cars and trucks Stars beginning to fade And I lead the parade Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer Oh Lord, that feeling's getting stronger Now six in the morning, gave me no warning I had to be on my way Lights passing and trucks a flashing I'm on my way home from your place And now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck freeway cars and trucks
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Ol' `55
(Tom Waits 1971)

My time went so quickly
I went lickety-splickly out to my ol' `55
Pulled away slowly, feeling so holy
God knows I was feeling alive

And now the sun's coming up
I'm riding with Lady Luck
Freeway cars and trucks
Stars beginning to fade
And I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer
Oh Lord, that feeling's getting stronger

Now six in the morning, gave me no warning
I had to be on my way
Lights passing and trucks a flashing
I'm on my way home from your place

And now the sun's coming up
I'm riding with Lady Luck
freeway cars and trucks

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Mockin' Bird (Tom Waits 1971)
Mocking Bird high in a tree Looks like you got the best of me Mocking Bird singing his song Well the Mocking Bird is mocking me now that you're gone Mocking bird high in a loof Well he's blowing notes on top my roof Well mocking bird singing his song Well the Mocking bird is mocking me now that you're gone Well mocking bird high in a tree Looking up at you, you're looking down at me And mocking bird high in a loof Blowing notes on top my roof Mocking bird high in a tree Well looking up at you, looking down at me Well mocking bird singing his song Well mocking is bird mocking me now that you're gone Throwed some papers, tried to scare him away Just looked down at me and this is what he said And the mocking bird high in the tree Looks like you got the best of me Mocking Bird singing his song Well Mocking Bird is mocking me now that you're gone
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Mockin' Bird
(Tom Waits 1971)

Mocking Bird high in a tree
Looks like you got the best of me
Mocking Bird singing his song
Well the Mocking Bird is mocking me now that you're gone

Mocking bird high in a loof
Well he's blowing notes on top my roof
Well mocking bird singing his song
Well the Mocking bird is mocking me now that you're gone

Well mocking bird high in a tree
Looking up at you, you're looking down at me
And mocking bird high in a loof
Blowing notes on top my roof

Mocking bird high in a tree
Well looking up at you, looking down at me
Well mocking bird singing his song
Well mocking is bird mocking me now that you're gone

Throwed some papers, tried to scare him away
Just looked down at me and this is what he said

And the mocking bird high in the tree
Looks like you got the best of me
Mocking Bird singing his song
Well Mocking Bird is mocking me now that you're gone

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In Between Love (Tom Waits 1971)
In between love, trying to scheme love Who can tell what we may find Never thought love, not get caught love Between the magic in your eyes And loves like women, it's a cool and breezy Never thought that love could be so easy In between love, trying to scheme love In between love again In between love, trying to scheme love Who can tell what we may find All this time love, I sublime love To the feelings in my mind Loves like women, it's a cool and breezy Never thought that love could be so easy In between love, trying to scheme love In between love again
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In Between Love
(Tom Waits 1971)

In between love, trying to scheme love
Who can tell what we may find
Never thought love, not get caught love
Between the magic in your eyes
And loves like women, it's a cool and breezy
Never thought that love could be so easy

In between love, trying to scheme love
In between love again

In between love, trying to scheme love
Who can tell what we may find
All this time love, I sublime love
To the feelings in my mind
Loves like women, it's a cool and breezy
Never thought that love could be so easy

In between love, trying to scheme love
In between love again

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Blue Skies (Tom Waits 1971)
Blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies shine on my face Give me another woman to take her place Ain't got no money, cupboards are bare No cigarettes and the kids got nothing to wear She walked out without a word Now the only sound left is that morning bird singing, blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies shine in my face Give me another woman to take her place Singing, blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies shine in my face Give me another woman to take her place Give me another woman to take her place
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Blue Skies
(Tom Waits 1971)

Blue skies over my head
Give me another reason to get out of bed
Blue skies shine on my face
Give me another woman to take her place

Ain't got no money, cupboards are bare
No cigarettes and the kids got nothing to wear
She walked out without a word
Now the only sound left is that morning bird

singing, blue skies over my head
Give me another reason to get out of bed
Blue skies shine in my face
Give me another woman to take her place

Singing, blue skies over my head
Give me another reason to get out of bed
Blue skies shine in my face
Give me another woman to take her place
Give me another woman to take her place

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Nobody (Tom Waits 1971)
Nobody, nobody, will ever love you the way that I love you Cause nobody is that strong Love's bittersweet, life's treasures deep No one can keep a love that's gone wrong Nobody, nobody, gonna love you the way I could Cause nobody is that strong No nobody's that strong Nobody, nobody, is gonna love you the way I love you Cause nobody is that strong, yeah You've had many lovers, you'll have many others But they'll only just break your poor heart in two And nobody, nobody, will love you the way I could Cause nobody's that strong No nobody's that strong
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Nobody
(Tom Waits 1971)

Nobody, nobody, will ever love you the way that I love you
Cause nobody is that strong
Love's bittersweet, life's treasures deep
No one can keep a love that's gone wrong

Nobody, nobody, gonna love you the way I could
Cause nobody is that strong
No nobody's that strong

Nobody, nobody, is gonna love you the way I love you
Cause nobody is that strong, yeah

You've had many lovers, you'll have many others
But they'll only just break your poor heart in two
And nobody, nobody, will love you the way I could
Cause nobody's that strong
No nobody's that strong

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I Want You (Tom Waits 1971)
I want you, you, you All I want is you, you, you All I want is you Give you stars above, Sun on brightest day Give you all my love, if you would only say That I want you, you, you All I want is you, you, you All I want is you
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Shiver Me Timbers (Tom Waits 1971)
I'm leavin' my family, I'm leavin' my friends My body's at home but my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky My tears are salt water and the moon's full and high And I know Martin Eden is gonna be proud of me And many before me who've been called by the sea To be up in the crow's nest and singing my say Shiver me Timbers, I'm a-sailing away The fog's lifting and the sand's shifting And I'm driftin' on out And Ol' Captain Ahab he ain't got nothin' on me So come on and swallow me, don't follow me I'll travel alone Blue water's my daughter, I'm gonna skip like a stone And please call my missus, tell her not to cry My goodbye is written by the moon in the sky And nobody knows me, I can't fathom my staying Shiver me timbers I'm a-sailing away And the fog's lifting and the sand's shifting And I'm driftin' on out Ol' Captain Ahab he ain't got nothin' on me So come on and swallow me, don't follow me I'll travel alone Blue water's my daughter and I'm gonna skip like a stone And I'm leavin' my family, I'm Leavin' my friends My body's at home but my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky And shiver me timbers, I'm a-sailin' away
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Shiver Me Timbers
(Tom Waits 1971)

I'm leavin' my family, I'm leavin' my friends
My body's at home but my heart's in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky
My tears are salt water and the moon's full and high

And I know Martin Eden is gonna be proud of me
And many before me who've been called by the sea
To be up in the crow's nest and singing my say
Shiver me Timbers, I'm a-sailing away

The fog's lifting and the sand's shifting
And I'm driftin' on out
And Ol' Captain Ahab he ain't got nothin' on me
So come on and swallow me, don't follow me
I'll travel alone
Blue water's my daughter, I'm gonna skip like a stone

And please call my missus, tell her not to cry
My goodbye is written by the moon in the sky
And nobody knows me, I can't fathom my staying
Shiver me timbers I'm a-sailing away

And the fog's lifting and the sand's shifting
And I'm driftin' on out
Ol' Captain Ahab he ain't got nothin' on me
So come on and swallow me, don't follow me
I'll travel alone
Blue water's my daughter and I'm gonna skip like a stone

And I'm leavin' my family, I'm Leavin' my friends
My body's at home but my heart's in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky
And shiver me timbers, I'm a-sailin' away

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Grapefruit Moon (Tom Waits 1971)
Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me I heard that tune and now I'm pining. Honey, can't you see? That every time I hear that melody Something breaks inside And grapefruit moon, one star shining, can't turn back the tide Never had no destination, could not get across You became my inspiration, oh but what a cost 'Cause every time I hear that melody, puts me up a tree And grapefruit moon, one star shining, Is all that I can see Now I'm smoking cigarettes, strive for purity And I slip just like the stars into obscurity 'Cause every time I hear that melody, something breaks inside And the grapefruit moon, one star shining is much too big to hide
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Grapefruit Moon
(Tom Waits 1971)

Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me
I heard that tune and now I'm pining. Honey, can't you see?
That every time I hear that melody Something breaks inside
And grapefruit moon, one star shining, can't turn back the tide

Never had no destination, could not get across
You became my inspiration, oh but what a cost
'Cause every time I hear that melody, puts me up a tree
And grapefruit moon, one star shining, Is all that I can see

Now I'm smoking cigarettes, strive for purity
And I slip just like the stars into obscurity
'Cause every time I hear that melody, something breaks inside
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining is much too big to hide

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Diamonds On My Windshield (Tom Waits 1971)
Diamonds on my windshield Tears from heaven Pulling into town on the Interstate Pulling a steel train in the rain The wind bites my cheek through the wing Fast flying, freeway driving Always makes me sing There's a Duster tryin' to change my tune Pulling up fast on the right Rolling restlessly, twenty-four hour moon Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head Wishing he's home in a Wisconsin bed Fifteen feet of snow in the East Colder then a welldigger's ass Oceanside it ends the ride, San Clemente coming up Sunday desperadoes slip by, cheque station closing cruise with a dry back Orange drive-in, neon billin' Theatre's fillin' to the brim Slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin Metropolitan area, interchange and connections Fly-by-nights from Riverside Black and white plates, out of state Running a little bit late Sailors jockey for the fast lane 101 don't miss it Rolling hills and concrete fields Broken line's on your mind Eights go east and the fives go north And the merging nexus back and forth See your sign, cross the line Signal with a blink Radio's gone off the air And gives you time to think You ease it out and you creep across Intersection light goes out You hear the rumble As you fumble for a cigarette Blazing through the neon jungle Remember someone that you met One more block, the engine talks And whispers home at last Whispers, whispers, whispers Home at last, home at last
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Diamonds On My Windshield
(Tom Waits 1971)

Diamonds on my windshield
Tears from heaven
Pulling into town on the Interstate
Pulling a steel train in the rain
The wind bites my cheek through the wing
Fast flying, freeway driving
Always makes me sing

There's a Duster tryin' to change my tune
Pulling up fast on the right
Rolling restlessly, twenty-four hour moon

Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head
Wishing he's home in a Wisconsin bed
Fifteen feet of snow in the East
Colder then a welldigger's ass

Oceanside it ends the ride, San Clemente coming up
Sunday desperadoes slip by, cheque station closing
cruise with a dry back
Orange drive-in, neon billin'
Theatre's fillin' to the brim
Slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin

Metropolitan area, interchange and connections
Fly-by-nights from Riverside
Black and white plates, out of state
Running a little bit late

Sailors jockey for the fast lane
101 don't miss it
Rolling hills and concrete fields
Broken line's on your mind

Eights go east and the fives go north
And the merging nexus back and forth
See your sign, cross the line
Signal with a blink

Radio's gone off the air
And gives you time to think
You ease it out and you creep across
Intersection light goes out
You hear the rumble
As you fumble for a cigarette
Blazing through the neon jungle
Remember someone that you met
One more block, the engine talks
And whispers home at last
Whispers, whispers, whispers
Home at last, home at last

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Please Call Me, Baby (Tom Waits 1971)
The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs Just know there's got to be more So please call me, baby Wherever you are Cause it's too cold to be out walking in the streets We do crazy things when we're wounded Everyone's a bit insane I don't want you catching your death of cold Out walking in the rain I admit that I ain't no angel I admit I ain't no saint I'm selfish, I'm cruel and I'm blind If I exorcise my devils Well my angels may leave too When they leave they're so hard to find So please call me, baby Wherever you are It's too cold to be out walking in the streets We do crazy things when we're wounded Everyone's a bit insane I don't want you catching your death of cold Out walking in the rain We're always at each other's throats It drives me up the wall Most of the time I'm just blowing off steam I wish to God you'd leave me And I wish to God you'd stay Life's so different than it is in your dreams Please call me, baby Wherever you are It's too cold to be out walking in the streets We do crazy things when we're wounded Everyone's a bit insane I don't want you catching your death of cold Walking in the rain
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Please Call Me, Baby
(Tom Waits 1971)

The evening fell just like a star
Left a trail behind
You spit as you slammed out the door
If this is love we're crazy
As we fight like cats and dogs
Just know there's got to be more

So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
Cause it's too cold to be out walking in the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Out walking in the rain

I admit that I ain't no angel
I admit I ain't no saint
I'm selfish, I'm cruel and I'm blind
If I exorcise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
When they leave they're so hard to find

So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking in the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Out walking in the rain

We're always at each other's throats
It drives me up the wall
Most of the time I'm just blowing off steam
I wish to God you'd leave me
And I wish to God you'd stay
Life's so different than it is in your dreams

Please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking in the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain

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So It Goes (Tom Waits 1971)
If I was a seagull high and aloof I'd sail to your highest perch on your roof But I ain't the seagull, you know my name And the winds blow fortune, the winds blow pain And so it goes, nobody knows How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky And if I was a puppy dog in the early dawn I'd make it to your house and sleep on your lawn But I ain't the puppydog, you know my name And the winds blow fortune, the winds blow pain And so it goes, nobody knows How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky
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So It Goes
(Tom Waits 1971)

If I was a seagull high and aloof
I'd sail to your highest perch on your roof
But I ain't the seagull, you know my name
And the winds blow fortune, the winds blow pain
And so it goes, nobody knows
How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky

And if I was a puppy dog in the early dawn
I'd make it to your house and sleep on your lawn
But I ain't the puppydog, you know my name
And the winds blow fortune, the winds blow pain
And so it goes, nobody knows
How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky
How to get to the sky, how to get to the sky

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Old Shoes (Tom Waits 1971)
Well I'm singing this song cause it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while Cause it's harder by now and the truth is so clear That I am crying when I'm seeing you smile So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone And every time that I tried to tell you that we'd lost The magic we had at the start I would weep my heart when I looked in your eyes And I searched once again for the spark So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone Oh you know that there's something calling me dear And by morning, I'm sure to be gone For I'm older than you and you know so well That our time for to love was a song So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone Now I can see by your eyes that it's time for to go So I'll leave you crying in the rain Though I held in my hand, the key to all joy Honey my heart was not born to be tamed And goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear And your tears cannot bind me anymore And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone
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Old Shoes
(Tom Waits 1971)

Well I'm singing this song cause it's time it was sung
I've been putting it off for a while
Cause it's harder by now and the truth is so clear
That I am crying when I'm seeing you smile
So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear
And your tears cannot bind me anymore
And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes
Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone

And every time that I tried to tell you that we'd lost
The magic we had at the start
I would weep my heart when I looked in your eyes
And I searched once again for the spark
So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear
And your tears cannot bind me anymore
And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes
Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone

Oh you know that there's something calling me dear
And by morning, I'm sure to be gone
For I'm older than you and you know so well
That our time for to love was a song
So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear
And your tears cannot bind me anymore
And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes
Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone

Now I can see by your eyes that it's time for to go
So I'll leave you crying in the rain
Though I held in my hand, the key to all joy
Honey my heart was not born to be tamed
And goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear
And your tears cannot bind me anymore
And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes
Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone
Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone

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