Tom Waits - Sins of My Father lyrics

God said don't give me your tin horn prayers Don't buy roses off the street down there Took it all and took the dirt road home Dreamin' of Jenny with the light brown hair Night is fallin' like a bloody axe Lies and rumours and the wind at my back Hand on the wheel, gravel on the road Will the pawn shop sell me back What I sold I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I'm gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Birds cry warnin' from a hidden branch Carvin' out a future with a gun and an axe I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man Still livin' in the palm on the grace of your hand World's not easy the blind man said Turns on nothin' but money and dread Dog's been scratchin' at the door all night Long neck birds flyin' out of the moon light I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I'm gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie Star - spangled glitter of his one good eye Everybody knows that the game was rigged Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig Dark town alley been hidin' you Long bell tollin' your Waterloo Oh baby, what can you do? Does the light of God blind you Or lead the way home for you? I'm gonna take the sins of my father Take the sins of my mother I'm gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond I'm gonna take the sins of my father Take the sins of my mother Take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond God all mighty for righteousness sake Humiliation of our fallen state Writ' me the book of tubold Cain Long black overcoat will show no stain Feel the heat and the burn on your back The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack All my belongings in a flour sack I'm gonna take the sons of my father Take the sins of my mother Take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond Hang me in the mornin' on a scaffold yea big To dance upon nothin' to the tyborn jig Treats you like a puppet when your under his spell Oh, the heart is Heaven But the mind is Hell Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds Is born at this time for a reason you see When i'm dead i'll be dead a long time The wine's so pleasin' and so sublime I'm gonna take the sins of my father Take the sins of my mother I'm gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree Everything I done is between God and me Only He will judge how my time was spent Twenty - nine days of sinnin' And forty to repent The horse is steady but the horse is blind Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind Roots grow upward and the branches grow down It's much too late to throw the dice again I've found I'm gonna take the sins of my father Take the sins of my mother Gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond I'm gonna wash them I'm gonna wash them I'm gonna wash the sins of my father I'm gonna wash the sins of my mother Wash the sins of my brother 'Til the water runs clear 'Til the water runs clear 'Til the water runs clear