Tom Waits - All The World Is Green

[gorphon]

btw, if anyone is interested in any of the lyrics I post here (or anywhere else) PLEASE feel free to pm me for album info and....ummm..... stuff. know what Im saying?

All The World Is Green

I fell into the ocean

When you became my wife

I risked it all aganist the sea

To have a better life

Marie you're the wild blue sky

And men do foolish things

You turn kings into beggars

And beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothing

And all the world is green

We can bring back the old days again

And all the world is green

The face forgives the mirror

The worm forgives the plow

The questions begs the answer

Can you forgive me somehow

Maybe when our story's over

We'll go where it's always spring

The band is playing our song again

And all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing

And all the world is green

We can bring back the old days again

And all the world is green

The moon is yellow silver

Oh the things that summer brings

It's a love you'd kill for

And all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond

On a blade of grass

The dew will settle on our grave(s)

When all the world is green

[Shawn]

btw, if anyone is interested in any of the lyrics I post here (or anywhere else) PLEASE feel free to pm me for album info and....ummm..... stuff. know what Im saying?

Although I have a couple of his albums, my favorite two songs of his are:

'I don't wanna grow up' & 'who are you this time'

Good stuff. :good job:

[gorphon]

if you would like more shawn, do be in touch in pm... I dont know if I can say that I have all of his albums but I do have many many.

actually, all the lyrics I do post here (not just Waits) will be from songs off of albums that I own. so again, the invitation to anyone wanting to PM me for info is extended again.

btw shawn: here is probably (debated in my own head) my favorite tom waits song especially the line about "I yealled and I cursed, if I stay here I'll rust and Im stuck like a shipwreck out in the dust..."

Whistle Down the Wind

(Tom Waits)

I've grown up here now

All of my life

But I dreamed

Someday I'd go

Where blue eyed girls

And red guitars and

Naked rivers flow

I'm not all I thought I'd be

I always stayed around

I've been as far as Mercy and Grand

Frozen to the ground

I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave

(Just kiss me once and then)

I'll go to hell

I might as well

Be whistlin' down the wind

The bus at the corner

The clock's on the wall

Broken windmill

There's no wind at all

I've yelled and I've cursed

If I stay here I'll rust

I'm stuck like a shipwreck

Out here in the dust

Sky is red

And the world's on fire

And the corn is taller than me

The dog is tied

To a wagon of rain

And the road is as wet as the sea

And sometimes the music from a dance

Will carry across the plains

And the places that I'm dreaming of

Do they dream only of me?

There are places where they never sleep

And the circus never ends

So I will take the Marley Bone Coach

And whistle down the wind.