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9th and Hennepin
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Tom Waits
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Well it's Ninth and Hennepin
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All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
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Like a tarp thrown all over this
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And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
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And the steam comes out of the grill
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Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow...
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And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
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And everyone is behaving like dogs
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And the horses are coming down Violin Road
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And Dutch is dead on his feet
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And all the rooms they smell like diesel
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And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept here
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And I'm lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
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And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat...
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And no one brings anything small into a bar around here
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They all started out with bad directions
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And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
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One for every year he's away, she said
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Such a crumbling beauty, ah
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There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't fix
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She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
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With the clang and the thunder of the Southern Pacific going by
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And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
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til you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
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And you spill out over the side to anyone who will listen...
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And I've seen it all, I've seen it all
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Through the yellow windows of the evening train
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