Tom Waits Lyrics

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album: "Closing Time" (1973)

Tom Waits - Closing Time album cover

I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You

Virginia Avenue

Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)

Midnight Lullaby

Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)

Grapefruit Moon

album: "The Heart Of Saturday Night" (1974)

Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night album cover

New Coat Of Paint

San Diego Serenade

Shiver Me Timbers

Diamonds On My Windshield

(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night

Fumblin' With The Blues

Please Call Me, Baby

Drunk On The Moon

The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)

album: "Nighthawks At The Diner" (1975)

Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner album cover

(Opening Intro)

Emotional Weather Report

On A Foggy Night

Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)

Better Off Without A Wife

Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

Warm Beer And Cold Women

Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)

Big Joe And Phantom 309

Spare Parts II And Closing

album: "Small Change" (1976)

Tom Waits - Small Change album cover

Tom Traubert's Blues

I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

Invitation To The Blues

Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)

Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)

The One That Got Away

Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)

I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)

album: "Foreign Affairs" (1977)

Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs album cover

Cinny's Waltz

(Instrumental)

I Never Talk To Strangers

Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come

A Sight For Sore Eyes

album: "Blue Valentine" (1978)

Tom Waits - Blue Valentine album cover

Red Shoes By The Drugstore

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

Romeo Is Bleeding

Wrong Side Of The Road

Whistlin' Past The Graveyard

Kentucky Avenue

A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun

Blue Valentines

album: "Heartattack And Vine" (1980)

Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine album cover

Heartattack And Vine

In Shades

(Instrumental)

Saving All My Love For You

'Til The Money Runs Out

album: "Swordfishtrombones" (1983)

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones album cover

Dave The Butcher

(Instrumental)

Johnsburg, Illinois

16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six

Town With No Cheer

In The Neighborhood

Just Another Sucker on the Vine

(Instrumental)

Frank's Wild Years

Swordfishtrombone

Down, Down, Down

Soldier's Things

Trouble's Braids

Rainbirds

(Instrumental)

album: "Rain Dogs" (1985)

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs album cover

Jockey Full Of Bourbon

Tango Till They're Sore

Big Black Mariah

Diamonds & Gold

Hang Down Your Head

Midtown (Instrumental)

(Instrumental)

Gun Street Girl

Walking Spanish

Bride Of Rain Dog (Instrumental)

(Instrumental)

Anywhere I Lay My Head

album: "Franks Wild Years" (1987)

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years album cover

Hang On St. Christopher

Straight To The Top (Rhumba)

Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)

Yesterday Is Here

Please Wake Me Up

Way Down In The Hole

Straight to the Top (Vegas)

I'll Take New York

Telephone Call From Istanbul

Cold Cold Ground

Innocent When You Dream (78)

album: "The Early Years Vol. 1" (1991)

Tom Waits - The Early Years Vol. 1 album cover

Goin' Down Slow

Poncho's Lament

I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute

Virginia Avenue

Midnight Lullabye

When You Ain't Got Nobody

Little Trip To Heaven

Look's Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again

So Long I'll See Ya

album: "Bone Machine" (1992)

Tom Waits - Bone Machine album cover

Earth Died Screaming

Dirt In The Ground

All Stripped Down

The Ocean Doesn't Want Me

Jesus Gonna Be Here

In The Colosseum

Murder In The Red Barn

Whistle Down The Wind

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Let Me Get Up On It

album: "The Early Years Vol. 2" (1993)

Tom Waits - The Early Years Vol. 2 album cover

Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You

In Between Love

Shiver Me Timbers

Grapefruit Moon

Diamonds On My Windshield

Please Call Me, Baby

album: "The Black Rider" (1993)

Tom Waits - The Black Rider album cover

Lucky Day Overture

The Black Rider

Just The Right Bullets

Black Box Theme

(Instrumental)

'T' Ain't No Sin

Flash Pan Hunter (Intro)

(Instrumental)

The Briar And The Rose

Russian Dance

(Instrumental)

I'll Shoot The Moon

Flash Pan Hunter

Interlude

(Instrumental)

The Last Rose Of Summer

Carnival

(Instrumental)

album: "Mule Variations" (1999)

Tom Waits - Mule Variations album cover

Lowside Of The Road

Get Behind The Mule

House Where Nobody Lives

What's He Building?

Black Market Baby

Picture In A Frame

Chocolate Jesus

Filipino Box Spring Hog

Take It With Me

Come On Up To The House

album: "Alice" (2002)

Tom Waits - Alice album cover

Everything You Can Think

No One Knows I'm Gone

Kommienezuspadt

Lost In The Harbour

We're All Mad Here

Watch Her Disappear

Fawn

(Instrumental)

album: "Blood Money" (2002)

Tom Waits - Blood Money album cover

Misery Is The River Of The World

Everything Goes To Hell

Coney Island Baby

All The World Is Green

God's Away On Business

Another Man's Vine

Knife Chase

(Instrumental)

Starving In The Belly Of A Whale

The Part You Throw Away

Calliope

(Instrumental)

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

album: "Real Gone" (2004)

Tom Waits - Real Gone album cover

Top Of The Hill

Sins Of My Father

Don't Go Into That Barn

How's It Gonna End

Metropolitan Glide

Dead And Lovely

Baby Gonna Leave Me

Clang Boom Steam

Day After Tomorrow

album: "Orphans: Disc 1 - Brawlers" (2006)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Disc 1 - Brawlers album cover

Fish In The Jailhouse

Bottom Of The World

Ain't Goin' Down To The Well

Lord I've Been Changed

Puttin' On The Dog

The Return Of Jackie And Judy

Buzz Fledderjohn

album: "Orphans: Disc 2 - Bawlers" (2006)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Disc 2 - Bawlers album cover

Bend Down The Branches

You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Little Drop Of Poison

World Keeps Turning

If I Have To Go

Goodnight Irene

The Fall Of Troy

Take Care Of All My Children

Down There By The Train

Jayne's Blue Wish

album: "Orphans: Disc 3 - Bastards" (2006)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Disc 3 - Bastards album cover

What Keeps Mankind Alive

Children's Story

Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs' Marching Song)

Bone Chain

(Instrumental)

Redrum

(Instrumental)

Home I'll Never Be

Poor Little Lamb

Spidey's Wild Ride

album: "Bad As Me" (2011)

Tom Waits - Bad As Me album cover

Raised Right Men

Talking At The Same Time

Face To The Highway

Back In The Crowd

Hell Broke Luce

She Stole The Blush

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

other songs:

Back In The Good Old World (Gypsy)

(from "Night On Earth" soundtrack)

Cold Cold Ground (Live)

Get Behind The Mule (Spiritual)

Good Old World (Waltz)

(from "Night On Earth" soundtrack)

On The Other Side Of The World

(from "Night On Earth" soundtrack)

Take One Last Look