9th hennepin lyrics

Artist  : Tom waits 
Song : 9th hennepin
 
Well it’s ninth and hennepin
All the doughnuts have names that sound like
prostitutes
And the moon’s teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town’s ready to blow...
And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse
tattoos
And everyone is behaving like dogs
And the horses are coming down violin road
And dutch is dead on his feet
And all the rooms they smell like diesel
And you take on the dreams of the ones who have
slept here
And I’m lost in the window, and I hide in the
stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your
hat...
And no one brings anything small into a bar
around here
They all started out with bad directions
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed
tear
"one for every year he’s away", she
said
Such a crumbling beauty, ah
There’s nothing wrong with her that a hundred
dollars won’t fix
She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
With the clang and the thunder of the southern
pacific going by
And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
’til you’re full of rag water and bitters and
blue ruin
And you spill out over the side to anyone who
will listen...
And I’ve seen it all, I’ve seen it all
Through the yellow windows of the evening
train...