Tom Waits - Closing Time Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:13:30 +0100 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar Hedlund @ARTIST: Tom Waits @ALBUM: Closing Time 01. Ol'55 02. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You 03. Virginia Avenue 04. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) 05. Midnight Lullaby 06. Martha 07. Rosie 08. Lonely 09. Ice Cream Man 10. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love) 11. Grapefruit Moon 12. Closing Time @SONG: Ol' 55 well my time went so quickly I went lickety-splitly out to my old '55 as I drove away slowly feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive 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, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger and it's six in the morning, gave me no warning I had to be on my way well there's trucks all a-passing me and the lights are all 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, stars beginning to fade and I lead the parade just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer oh, Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger and my time went so quickly I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 as I pulled away slowly feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, freeway cars and trucks freeway cars and trucks @SONG: I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You 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, people everywhere and I wonder, should I offer you a chair well if you sit down with this old clown, 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 the night does funny things inside a man these old tom-cat feelings you don't understand well I turn around to 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 I can see that you are lonesome just like me and it being late, you'd like some some company well I turn around to 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 now it's closing time, the music's fading out last call for drinks, I'll have another stout well 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 @SONG: Virginia Avenue well, I'm walking on down Virginia Avenue trying to find somebody to tell my troubles to Harold's club is closing and everybody's going on home what's a poor boy to do I'll just get on back into my short, make it back to the fort sleep off all the crazy lizards inside of my brain there's got to be some place that's better than this this life I'm leading's driving me insane and let me tell you I'm dreaming let me tell you that I'm dreaming to the twilight, this town has got me down I've seen all the highlights, I've been walking all around I won't make a fuss, I'll take a Greyhound bus, carry me away from here tell me, what have I got to lose 'cause I'm walking on down Columbus Avenue the bars are all closing, 'cause it's quarter to two every town I go to is like a lock without a key those I leave behind are catching up on me let me tell you they're catching up on me, they're catching up on me catching up on me, catching up on me, catching up on me @SONG: Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while but it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear that I cry 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 every time that I tried to tell 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 I can see by your eyes, it's time now to go so I'll leave you to cry in the rain though I held in my hand, the key to all joy honey my heart was not born to be tamed 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 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 ... @SONG: Midnight Lullaby sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye hush-a bye my baby, no need to be crying you can burn the midnight oil with me as long as you will stare out at the moon upon the windowsill and dream sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye hush-a bye my baby, no need to be crying there's dew drops on the window sill, gumdrops in your head slipping into dream land, you're nodding your head, so dream dream of West Virginia or of the British Isles 'cause when you are dreaming, you see for miles and miles when you are much older remember when we sat at midnight on the windowsill and had this little chat and dream, come on and dream, come on and dream and dream, and dream ... @SONG: Martha operator, number please, it's been so many years will she remember my old voice while I fight the tears hello, hello there, is this Martha, this is old Tom Frost and I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost 'cause it's been forty years or more, now Martha please recall meet me out for coffee, where we'll talk about it all and those were the days of roses, poetry and prose and Martha all I had was you and all you had was me there was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows and we saved them for a rainy day and I feel so much older now and you're much older too how's your husband, and how's the kids, you know that I got married too luck that you found someone to make you feel secure 'cause we were all so young and foolish, now we are mature and those were the days of roses, poetry and prose and Martha all I had was you and all you had was me there was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows and we saved them for a rainy day and I was always so impulsive, I guess that I still am and all that really mattered then was that I was a man I guess that our being together was never meant to be and Martha, Martha, I love you can't you see and those were the days of roses, poetry and prose and Martha all I had was you and all you had was me there was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows and we saved them for a rainy day and I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you @SONG: Rosie well I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn nobody's up except the moon and me and a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree all that you left me was a melody Rosie, why do you evade Rosie, how can I persuade, Rosie and the moon's all up, full and big apricot tips in an indigo sky and I've been loving you, Rosie, since the day I was born and I'll love you, Rosie 'til the day I die Rosie, why do you evade Rosie, how can I persuade, Rosie Rosie, why do you evade Rosie, how can I persuade, Rosie and I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn nobody's up except the moon and me and a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree all that you left me was a melody Rosie, why do you evade Rosie, how can I persuade Rosie @SONG: Lonely lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely eyes lonely face, lonely, lonely in your place lonely, lonely, lonely eyes lonely face, lonely, lonely in your place I thought that I knew all that there was to lonely, lonely, lonely Melanie Jane, won't feel the pain lonely, lonely, lonely eyes lonely face, lonely, lonely in your place and I thought that I knew all that there was to lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face lonely lonely in your place and I still love you, I still love you lonely, lonely @SONG: Ice Cream Man I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five sidewalk sundae strawberry surprise I got a cherry popsicle right on time a big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind 'cause I'm the ice cream man, I'm a one-man band, yeah I'm the ice cream man, honey, I'll be good to you baby, missed me in the alley, baby, don't you fret come back around and don't forget when you're tired and you're hungry and you want something cool got something better than a swimming pool 'cause I'm the ice cream man, I'm a one-man band I'm the ice cream man, honey, I'll be good to you, yeah 'cause I'm the ice cream man, I'm a one-man band I'm the ice cream man, honey, I'll be good to you see me coming, you ain't got no change don't worry baby, it can be arranged show me you can smile, baby just for me fix you with a drumstick, I'll do it for free 'cause I'm the ice cream man, I'm a one-man band I'm the ice cream man, honey, I'll be good to you be good to you, be good to you good to you, yeah, good to you, yeah good to you, yeah, good to you, yeah good to you, yeah, good to you I'll be good to you, I'll be good to you... @SONG: Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love) lazy trip to heaven on the wings of your love banana moon is shining in the sky feel like I'm in heaven when you're with me know that I'm in heaven when you smile though we're stuck here on the ground I got something that I've found and it's you and I don't have to take no trip to outer space all I have to do is look at your face and before I know it, I'm in orbit around you thanking my lucky stars that I've found you when I see your constellation honey, you're my inspiration and it's you you're my north star when I'm lost and feeling blue the sun is breaking through the clouds don't you, don't you know it's true honey, all the other stars seem dim around you thanking my lucky stars that I've found you when I see your smiling face, honey I know nothing ever going to take your place and it's you and it's you ... @SONG: Grapefruit Moon grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me heard that tune and now I'm pining, honey, can't you see 'cause every time I hear that melody, well, something breaks inside and the 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, well, something breaks inside and the grapefruit moon, one star shining, is more than I can hide now I'm smoking cigarettes and I strive for purity and I slip just like the stars into obscurity 'cause every time I hear that melody, well, puts me up a tree and the grapefruit moon, one star shining, is all that I can see @SONG: Closing Time