Tom Waits - Time lyrics

The smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street The shadow boys are breaking all the laws And you're east of East St. Louis and the wind is making speeches And the rain sounds like a round of applause Napoleon is weeping in the Carnival saloon His invisible fiancee is in the mirror And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails It's true, there's nothing left for him down here And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget That history puts a saint in every dream Well, she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit And Matilda asks the sailors are those dreams or are those prayers So close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time Well, things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips As the dish outside the window fills with rain Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart And pay the fiddler off 'till I come back again Oh, it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time Oh, it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time And it's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time