Tom Waits - Fumblin' With the Blues / Drunk on the Moon / Virginia Avenue lyrics

FUMBLING WITH THE BLUES Friday left me fumblin' with the blues And it's hard to win when you always lose Because the nightspots spend your spirit Beat your head against the wall Two dead ends and you've still got to choose You know the bartenders they all know my name And they catch me when I'm pulling up lame And I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head When I should be living clean instead You know the ladies I've been seeing off and on Well they spend your love and then they're gone You can't be lovin' someone who is savage and cruel Take your love and then they leave on out of town, no they do Well now fallin' in love is such a breeze But its standin' up that's so hard for me I wanna squeeze you but I'm scared to d**h I'd break your back You know your perfume well it won't let me be And you know the bartenders all know my name And they catch me when I'm pulling up lame And I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head When I should be living clean instead Well, come on baby let your love light shine Gotta bury me inside of your fire Because your eyes are 'nough to blind me You're like a-looking at the sun You gotta whisper tell me I'm the one Come on and whisper tell me I'm the one Gotta whisper tell me I'm the one Come on and whisper tell me I'm the one DRUNK ON THE MOON Tight-slack clad girls on the graveyard shift 'Neath the cement stroll, catch the midnight drift Cigar chewing Charlie in that newspaper nest Grifting hot horse tips on who's running the best And I'm blinded by the neon Don't try and change my tune Cause I thought I heard a saxophone I'm drunk on the moon And the moon's a silver slipper, it's pouring champagne stars And Broadway's like a serpent pulling shiny top-down cars Laramer is teeming with that undulating beat And some Bonneville is screaming, it's way wilder down the street And I'm blinded by the neon Don't try and change my tune I thought I heard a saxophone I'm drunk on the moon Hearts flutter and race, the moon's on the wane Tarts mutter their dream hopes the night will ordain Come schemers and dancers, cherry delight As a Cleveland-bound Greyhound, and it cuts through the night And I've hawked all my yesterdays Don't try and change my tune Cause I thought I heard a saxophone I'm drunk on the moon VIRGINIA AVENUE Well, I'm walkin' down Virginia Avenue I'm tryin' to find somebody to tell my troubles to Harold's club is closin', everybody's goin' on home What's a poor sailor to do? I guess I'll get on back into my short, make it back to the fort Sleepin' off the craziness that's inside of my brain Got to be some place that's better than this This life I'm leadin's drivin' me insane And I'm dreamin' And I'm dreamin' to the twilight, cause this town has got me down I've seen all of the highlights, I've been walkin' it around I won't make a fuss, I'll take a Greyhound bus Carry me away from here, now what have I got to lose? I'm just a-walkin' down Columbus Avenue Bars are all closin', cause it's quarter to two Every town I go to is like a lock without a key The blues I leave behind keep catchin' up on me Catchin' up on me They're catchin' up on me Catchin' up on me Catchin' up on me Catchin' up on me