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Tom Waits
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Tom Waits: Vocal
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Ronnie Barron: Hammond organ
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Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
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Well Frank settled down in the Valley
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and hung his wild years
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on a nail that he drove through
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his wife's forehead
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he sold used office furniture
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out there on San Fernando Road
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and assumed a $30,000 loan
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at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
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on a little two bedroom place
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his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
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made good bloody marys
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kept her mouth shut most of the time
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had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
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that had some kind of skin disease
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and was totally blind. They had a
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thoroughly modern kitchen
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self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
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Frank drove a little sedan
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they were so happy
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One night Frank was on his way home
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from work, stopped at the liquor store,
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picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
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drank 'em in the car on his way
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to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
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gas in a can, drove home, doused
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everything in the house, torched it,
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parked across the street, laughing,
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watching it burn, all Halloween
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orange and chimney red then
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Frank put on a top forty station
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got on the Hollywood Freeway
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headed north
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Never could stand that dog
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