Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For) lyrics

Artist  : Tom Waits 
Song : Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For)
 


Well these diamonds on my windshield
And these
tears from heaven
Well I'm pulling into town on
the Interstate
I got a steel train in the
rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the
wing
And it's these late nights and this
freeway flying
It always makes me
sing


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


And a Wisconsin hiker with a
cue-ball head
He's wishing he was home in a
Wiscosin bed
But there's fifteen feet of snow
in the East
Colder then a welldigger's
ass
And it's colder than a welldigger's
ass


Oceanside it ends the ride with
San Clemente coming up
Those Sunday
desperadoes slip by and cruise with a dry
back
And the orange drive-in the neon
billin'
And the theatre's fillin' to the
brim
With slave girls and a hot spurn bucket
full of sin


Metropolitan area with
interchange and connections
Fly-by-nights from
Riverside
And out of state plates running a
little late


But the sailors jockey for
the fast lane
So 101 don't miss it
There's
rolling hills and concrete fields
And the
broken line's on your mind


The eights
go east and the fives go north
And the merging
nexus back and forth
You see your sign, cross
the line, signalling with a blink


And
the radio's gone off the air
Gives you time to
think
And you hear the rumble
As you fumble
for a cigarette
And blazing through this
midnight jungle
Remember someone that you
met
And one more block; the engine
talks
Whispers 'home at last'
It whispers
'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'
It
whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at
last'


And there are diamonds on my
windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well
I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got
me a steel train in the rain
And the wind
bites my cheek through the wing
Late nights
and freeway flying
Always makes me sing
It
always makes me sing


(Hey look here
Jack, ok)