There's a blue eyed girl with a red bow tie
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and a string of pearls with one good eye
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in a rainy town the chimney smoke will curl
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no one likes clowns on the other side of the world
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and the children know she'll never let me go.
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there's a one legged priest that tangos with the farmers wife
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Beauty and the beast is taking her own life
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and a tear on a letter back home turns into a lake of your own
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and a crow turns into a girl on the other side of the world
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and she tastes like the sea and she's waiting for me
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in the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose
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and he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world.
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And I drink champagne from your thin blue veins
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She visits his grave wearing her mother's shawl
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should I shave or end it all.
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There's an old sailor song that the children know
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as their fingers curl around the other side of the world
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on a bone white mare lost in Kathleen's hair
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in the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose
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and he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world.
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On The Other Side Of The World
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| Tom Waits |
