9th And Hennepin lyrics

Artist  : Tom Waits 
Song : 9th And Hennepin
 
Well it's 9th and Hennepin

And all the
donuts have

Names that sound like
prostitutes

And the moon's teeth marks
are

On the sky like a tarp thrown over all
this

And the broken umbrellas like

Dead birds and the steam

Comes out of the
grill like

The whole goddamned town is 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 the rooms all smell like
diesel

And you take on the

Dreams of
the ones who have slept here.

And I'm lost
in the window

I hide on the stairway

I hang in the curtain

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 girls
behind the counter has a tattooed tear,

One
for every year he's away she said, such

A
crumbling beauty, but there's

Nothing wrong
with her that

$100 won't fix, she has that
razor sadness

That only gets worse

With the clang and the thunder of the

Southern Pacific going by

As the clock
ticks out like a dripping faucet

Till
you're full of rag water and bitters and blue
ruin

And you spill out

Over the side
to anyone who'll listen

And I've seen
it

All through the yellow windows

Of
the evening train.