《Potter’s Field》歌词

歌曲： Potter’s Field

所属专辑：The Asylum Years

歌手： Tom Waits

时长： 08:46

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Artist：tom waits[00:00:10]

Songs Title：potter’s field[00:00:12]

Well can you buy me a drink and Ill tell you what I seen[00:00:51]

And Ill give you a bargain from the edge of a maniacs dream[00:00:55]

That buys a black widow spider with a riddle in his yarn[00:01:00]

Thats clinging to the furrow of a blindmans brow[00:01:04]

Ill start talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey[00:01:08]

On a train through the bronx that will take you just as far[00:01:14]

As the empty of a bottle to the highway of a scar[00:01:19]

That stretched across the blacktop of my cheek like that[00:01:24]

And then ducks beneath the brim of a fugitives hat[00:01:29]

And youll learn why liquor makes a stool pigeon rat on every face[00:01:33]

That ever left his shadow down on saint marks place[00:01:40]

Hell Id double cross my mother if it was whiskey that they payed[00:01:45]

And so an early bird says nightsticks on the hit parade[00:02:02]

And he ain't got a prayer and his days are numbered[00:02:07]

And youll track doghim like down a [00:02:10]

Well its a tough customer you're getting in this trade[00:02:13]

Cause the nightsticks heart pumps lemonade[00:02:18]

Well whiskey keeps a blindman talkin alright[00:02:22]

And I'm the only one who knows just where he stayed last night[00:02:25]

He was in a wreckin yard in a switchblade storm[00:02:30]

In a wheelbarrow with nothing but revenge to keep him warm[00:02:39]

And a half a million dollars in unmarked bills[00:02:44]

Was the nightsticks blanket in a febuary chill[00:02:48]

And as the buzzard drove a crooked sky[00:02:52]

He was dealin high chicago in the mud[00:02:55]

And stackin the deck against a dragnets eye[00:03:02]

A shivering nightstick in a miserable heap[00:03:09]

With the siren for a lullaby singing him to sleep[00:03:13]

He was bleeding from a buttonhole[00:03:20]

Torn by a slug fired from the barrel of a two dollar gun[00:03:24]

That scorched a blister on the grip of a punk by now[00:03:30]

Is learnin what you have to pay to be a hero anyhow[00:03:39]

He dressed the hole in his gut with a hundred dollar bandage[00:03:46]

A kings ransom for a bedspread that don't amount to nuttin[00:03:57]

Just cobweb strings on a busted ukulele[00:04:03]

And the nightstick leaned on a black shillelagh[00:04:08]

With the poison of a junkies broken promise on his lip[00:04:11]

He staggered in the shadows screaming I ain't never been afraid[00:04:16]

And he shot out every street light on the promenade[00:04:30]

Past the frozen ham and eggers at the penny arcade[00:04:35]

Throwin out handfuls of a blood stained salary[00:04:39]

They were dead in their tracks at the shootin gallery[00:04:44]

And they fired off a twenty one gun salute[00:04:48]

And from the corner of his eye he caught the alabaster orbs[00:04:52]

And from a dime a dance hall girl and stuffed a thousand dollar bill[00:04:59]

In her blouse and caught the cruel and unusual punishment of her smile[00:05:05]

And the nightstick winked beneath a rainsoaked brim[00:05:12]

Ain't no one seen hide nor hair of him see[00:05:16]

No one but a spade on rikers island and me[00:05:20]

And so if you're mad enough to listen to a full of whiskey blindman[00:05:26]

Then you're mad enough to look beyond where bloodhounds dare to go[00:05:41]

So if you want to know just where the nightsticks hidin out[00:05:46]

You be down at the ferry landin oh lets say bout half past a nightmare[00:05:49]

When its twisted on a clock you tell em nickels sentcha[00:05:55]

Whiskey always makes him talk[00:06:01]

And you ask for captain charon with the mud on his kicks[00:06:04]

Hes the skipper of the deadline steamer[00:06:09]

And she sails from the bronx across the river styx[00:06:13]

And a riddles just a ticket for a dreamer[00:06:17]

Cause when the weathervanes sleepin and the moon turns his back[00:06:22]

You crawl on your belly long the railroad tracks[00:06:37]

And cross your heart and hope to die and stick a needle in your eye[00:06:41]

Cause hed cut my bleedin heart out if he found out that I squealed[00:06:47]

Cause you see a scarecrows just a hoodlum[00:06:51]

Who marked the cards that he dealed[00:06:58]

And pulled a gypsy switch[00:07:01]

Out on the edge of potters field[00:07:04]