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Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
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Tom Waits
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Well, the dawn cracked hard just like a bull-whip
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'Cause it wasn't takin' no lip from the night before
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And it shook out the streets
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As the stew bums showed up like bounced checks
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Rubbin' their necks
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And the sky turned the color of Pepto-Bismol
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Yeah, and the parking lots growled
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My old sport coat full of promissory notes
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And a receipt from a late night motel
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The hawk had his whole family out there, in the wind
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And he got a message for you to beware
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Kickin' your ass in, in a cold-blooded fashion
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Dishin' out more than a good man can bear
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And I got shoes untied, my shirt-tail's out
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Ain't got a ghost of a chance with this old romance
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Just an apartment for rent, down the block
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And Ivar Theater with live burlesque
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Man, the manager's scowlin' with his feet on the desk
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Boom, boom, against the curtain, you're still hurtin', ay, ay
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And then push came to shove and shove came to biff
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Girls like that just lay you out stiff
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Maybe I'll go to Cleveland
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And you know, get me a tattoo or somethin'
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My brother-in-law lives there
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And it's a skid mark tattoo on the asphalt blue
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Was that a Malibu?
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Yeah, it's Liz Taylor and Montgomery Cliff
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Coming on to the broads with the same ol' riff, yeah
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"Hey baby, why don't you come up to my place?
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We'll listen to some smooth music on the stereo"
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"No, thank you", she said
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"You got any Stan Getz records?"
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'No man, I got Smothers Brothers"
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So I combed back my Detroit, jacked up my pegs
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I wiped my Stacy Adams and I jackknifed my legs
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Yeah, I got designs on a movin' violation
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Yeah baby, you put me on hold and I'm out in the wind
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And it's gettin' mighty cold
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It's colder than a gut-shot bitch, wolf dog with nine suckin' pups
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Pullin' a number 4 trap up a hill in the dead of winter
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In the middle of a snowstorm with a mouth full of porcupine quills
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Well, I don't need you, baby
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You see, it's a well known fact, you know
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I'm four sheets to the wind, I'm glad you're gone
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I'm glad you're gone 'cause I'm finally alone
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Glad you're gone but I wish you'd come home
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Yeah, and I struggled out of bed
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'Cause the dawn was crackin' hard, just like a bull-whip
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And it wasn't takin' no lip from the night before
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Yeah, as it shook out the streets
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And the stew bums showed up just like bounced checks
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Rubbin' their necks
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And the sky turned the color of Pepto-Bismol
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And my old sport coat full of promissory notes
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And the hawk had his whole family out there, in the wind
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He got a message for you to beware
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Kickin' your ass in, in a cold blooded fashion
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He'll be dishin' out more than a good man can bear
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Well, let's take it to Bakersfield
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Get a little apartment somewhere
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