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Invitation to the Blues
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Tom Waits
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Well she's up against the register
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With an apron and a spatula
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With yesterday's deliveries
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And the tickets for the bachelors
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She's a moving violation
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From her conk down to her shoes
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But it's just an invitation to the blues
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And you feel just like Cagney
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She looks like Rita Hayworth
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At the counter of the
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Schwab's drug store
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You wonder if she might be single
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She's a loner and likes to mingle
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Got to be patient and pick up a clue
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She says, "How you gonna like 'em
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Over medium or scrambled?
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You say "Anyway's the only way", be careful not to gamble
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On a guy with a suitcase
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And a ticket gettin' out of here
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In a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes
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But it ain't nothin' but an invitation to the blues
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But you can't take your eyes off her get another cup of java
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And it's just the way she pours it for you
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Joking with the customers mercy mercy Mr. Percy
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There ain't nothin' back in Jersey
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But a broken-down jalopy of a man I left behind
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And a dream that I was chasin' and a battle with booze
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And an open invitation to the blues
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But she's had a sugar daddy and a candy apple caddy
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And a bank account and everything accustom to the finer things
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He probably left her for a socialite
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And he didn't love her except at night
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And then he's drunk and never even told her that he cared
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So they took the registration and the car-keys and her shoes
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And left her with an invitation to the blues
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'Cause there's a Continental Trailways leavin'
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Local bus tonight, good evenin'
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You can have my seat, I'm stickin' 'round here for a while
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Get me a room at the squire the fillin' station's hirin'
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And I can eat here every night what the hell have I got to lose
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Got a crazy sensation go or stay and I've got to choose
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And I'll accept your invitation to the blues
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