Just like Tom Thumb’s Blues

 

 

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1. When you're lost in the rain, in Juarez, and it’s Eastertime too,
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when your gravity fails, and negativity don't pull you through,
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don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue.
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They got some hungry women there and they really make a mess out of you.

2. If you see Saint Annie, please tell her thanks a lot.
I cannot move my fingers, they are all in a knot.
I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot
and my best friend, my doctor, won't even tell me what it is I've got.

 

3. Sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom.
She speaks good English and she takes you up into her room
and you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon
and she takes your voice, and leaves you howling at the moon.

 

4. I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff.
Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough
but the joke was one me, there was nobody to call my bluff.
I'm going back to New York City. I think I've had enough.