Tom Waits — Whistle Down the Wind

I grew up here, all of my life I dreamed someday I'd go Where the blue-eyed girls and the red guitars And the naked rivers flow Now I'm not all I thought I'd be I've always stayed around I've been as far as Mercy and Grand Frozen to the ground I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave So kiss me once and then I'll go to hell, I might as well Be whistlin' down the wind Bus is at the corner The clock on the wall A broken-down windmill Ain't no wind at all I yelled and I cursed If I stay here, I'll rust And I'm stuck like a shipwreck Out here in the dust Well, the sky is red and the world is on fire And the corn is taller than me And a dog is tied to a wagon of rain And the road is wet as the sea But sometimes the music from a dance Will carry across the plains And the places that I'm dreaming of Do they dream only of me? There are places where they never sleep And the circus never ends So I will take the Marley Bone Coach And be whistlin' down the wind So I will take the Marley Bone Coach And be whistlin' down the wind