bella ciao

I've been changed

never slept with a dream before he had to go away


*

"can these dry bones live?"

home

blue valentines

why do I save all this madness here in the nightstand drawer
there to haunt upon my shoulders
baby I know 
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
with this blind and broken heart
that sleeps beneath my lapel

Tom Waits [*]

And when you get blue 
And you've lost all your dreams
There's nothing like a campfire 
And a can of beans


Tom Waits [*]

"a little drop of poison in a red red blood"

she needs a way to turn around the bend
she said I wanna walk away and start all over again

there are things I've done I can't erase
I wanna look in the mirror and see another face
I said never but I'm doin' it again
I wanna walk away and start over again

no more rain no more roses
on my way
shake my thirst in a cool cool pond


Tom Waits [*]

hey you..."go on ahead and take this the wrong way"

do you still leave nothing 
but bones in the way?
did you bury the carnival
lions and all
excuse me while I sharpen my nails
and just who are you this time?
you look rather tired
(who drinks from your shoe)
are you pretending to love
well, I hear that it pays well
how do your pistol and your Bible and 
your sleeping pills go?
are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
well I fell in love 
with your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes.
you better get down on the floor
don't you know this is war
tell me who are you this time?
tell me who are you this time?


Tom Waits

Tom's blues

"all I've got is a pocket full of flowers on my grave"

"The heart wants a certain kind of lover, if it can"

note to self

reminder to self

"My head is spinning round, my heart is in my shoes"*

*Tom Waits

It's the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face
It's not her face, but such a charming face
That it's all right with me

It's the wrong song in the wrong style
Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile
It's not her smile, but a lovely smile
And it's all right with me

You can not know how happy I am we met
I'm strangely attracted to you
There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget
Don't you want to forget someone too?

And it's the wrong game and the wrong chips
Though your lips are tempting, it's the wrong lips
They're not her lips, but such tempting lips
That it's all right with me

(...)


Cole Porter

"you'll soon forget the tune that you play"

The kiss don't know
What the lips will say

(...)

Time is just memory
mixed in with Desire
That's not the road it is
Only the map...I say
gone just like matches


Tom Waits (*)

Serenade