Tom Waits Lyrics

Album: Bone Machine

Whistle Down the Wind Lyrics

(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 cursed

If i stay here I'll rust

I'm stuck like a shipwreck

Out here in the dust

Sky is red

And there 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