Testo Live Circus - Jacksonville - 07/01/08 - Tom Waits
Testo della canzone Live Circus - Jacksonville - 07/01/08 (Tom Waits), tratta dall'album Glitter And Doom Live
Well we put up our tent in a dark green knoll
Outside of town by the train tracks
And there was a seagull dump
And topping the bill was Horseface Ethel
And her marvelous pigs in satin
We pounded our stakes in the ground, all powder brown
And the branches spread like scary fingers reaching
We were in a pasture in Kankakee
And One-Eyed Myra, the queen of the galley
Who babysat the camel and the ostrich
She looked at me squinty with her one good eye
As she bottle-fed an orangutan named Tripod
Now how Tripod got his name is not appropriate for children
And then there was Yodeling Elaine, the queen of the air
She had a dollar-sign medallion about as
Big as a dinner plate around her neck
And a tiny bubble of spittle around her nostril
And a little rusty tear
For she had lassoed and lost another tipsy sailor
And over in the burnt yellow tent by the frozen tractor
The music was like electric sugar
And Zazu Bolin played "Steve and Jane"
With Mighty Tiny on the saw
And he leaned his head back, ahhhhhh
With a mouth full of gold teeth
And they played "Lopsided Heart"
And by the time they finished "Morning Low"
I was wild-eyed and Doctor Bliss slipped me a preparation
And I fell asleep with "Livery Stable Blues" in my ear
Give me a little bit of "Livery Stable Blues" guys
Play it nice, ehhhh
Play it for me and Molly
'Cause me and Molly Hooey
We drank Pruno and Kool-Aid
And she had a tattoo gun that was, uh
Well, it was made out of a cassette motor and a guitar string
And um, she soaked a hanky in three roses
And she rubbed it on the spot
And she drew a rickety heart and a bent arrow
And it hurt like hell
And Funeral Wells spun Poodle Murphy on the target
And he threw his hardware
Only once in Sheboygan did he miss, only once, Jesus
It took off just a miniscule piece of her ear
But she never let him forget it
Women!
They were doing two shows and she had a high fever
And, you know, that probably added to her frustration
And her anxiety, her depression
And Tip Little told her, "Hey, if you're smart
You'll leave the bum, leave the bum
You've got to leave the bum, leave the bum
Leave the bum, leave the bum, leave the bum"
And she said, "He came and fetched me last time I run
But I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet
And I wished I had some old whiskey and a gun"
Oh, leave the bum, you gotta leave the bum
Leave the bum, leave the bum
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Writer(s): Thomas Alan Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Hubert Yves Adrien Giraud
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