Tom Waits — Wrong Side of the Road

Put a dead cat on the railroad tracks When the wolf-bane's blooming by the tressel And get the eyeball of a rooster And the stones from a ditch And wash 'em down with bilge water And say you'll never snitch Take the buttons from a yellow jacket The feather from a buzzard The blood from a bounty hunter's cold black heart Catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass Tell your mama and your papa they can kiss your ass Poison all the water in the wishin' well And hang all them scarecrows from a Sycamore tree Burn down all them honeymoons, put 'em in a pillow case Wait next to the switchblades at the amusement park for me Strangle all the Christmas carols, scratch out all the prayers Tie 'em up with barbed wire and push 'em down the stairs And I'll whittle you a pistol for keepin' nightmares off your blinds Them sons of bitches always seem to sneak up from behind Siphon all the gas from your daddy's pickup truck Fill up Johnny's T-bird, I got a couple bucks Put on a little perfume and wear a ribbon in your hair Careful that you don't wake up the hounds Tear a bolt of lightning from the side of the sky Throw it in the cedar chest, if you want, I'll tell you why Bring me the gear shift knob from a '49 Merc Lie down here beside me, let me hold you in the dirt You're gonna tremble Tear the throat out of the night Sink your teeth into my shoulder Dig your nails into my back Tell that little girl to let go of my sleeve You'll be a woman when I catch you Come, baby, fall in love with me With my double-barrel shotgun and a whole box of shells We'll celebrate the Fourth of July We'll do 100 miles an hour spending someone else's dough Drive all the way to Reno on the wrong side of the road The wrong side of the road On the wrong side of the road The wrong side of the road Wrong side of the road Wrong side of the road Hey baby