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Tom Waits
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Miscellaneous
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9th & Hennepin
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Well it's 9th and Hennepin
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And all the donuts have
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Names that sound like prostitutes
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And the moon's teeth marks are
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On the sky like a tarp thrown over all this
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And the broken umbrellas like
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Dead birds and the steam
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Comes out of the grill like
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The whole goddamned town is 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 the rooms all smell like diesel
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And you take on the
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Dreams of the ones who have slept here.
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And I'm lost in the window
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I hide on the stairway
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I hang in the curtain
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I sleep in your hat
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And no one brings anything
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Small into a bar around here.
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They all started out with bad directions
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And the girls behind the counter has a tattooed tear,
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One for every year he's away she said, such
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A crumbling beauty, but there's
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Nothing wrong with her that
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$100 won't fix, she has that razor sadness
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That only gets worse
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With the clang and the thunder of the
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Southern Pacific going by
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As the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
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Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
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And you spill out
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Over the side to anyone who'll listen
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And I've seen it
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All through the yellow windows
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Of the evening train.
Tom Waits - "Downtown Train"
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