TOM WAITS: Blood Money (2002)

1. Misery Is The River Of The World
2. Everything Goes To Hell
3. Coney Island Baby
4. All The World Is Green
5. God's Away On Busines
6. Another Man's Vine
7. Knife Chase
8. Lullaby
9. Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
10. The Part You Throw Away
11. Woe
12. Calliope
13. A Good Man Is Hard To Find


MISERY IS THE RIVER OF THE WORLD
The higher that the monkey can climb
The more he shows his tail
Call no man happy ‘til he dies
There's no milk at the bottom of the pail

God builds a church
The devil builds a chapel
Like the thistles that are growing ‘round the trunk of a tree
All the good in the world
You can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and me

If there's one thing you can say about Mankind
There's nothing kind about man
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back again
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world

The higher that the monkey can climb
The more he shows his tail
Call no man happy ‘til he dies
There's no milk at the bottom of the pail
God tempers all the winds for the new shorn lambs
The devil knows the bible like the back of his hand
All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and me
If there's one thing you can say about Mankind
There's nothing kind about man
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back again

For want of a bird
The sky was lost
For want of a nail
A shoe was lost
For want of a life
A knife was lost
For want of a toy
A child was lost

And misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Everybody row! everybody row!
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Everybody row! everybody row!
Everybody row! everybody row!
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Everybody row! everybody row!
Everybody row! everybody row!
Everybody row!
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Everybody row! everybody row!
Everybody row! everybody row!

EVERYTHING GOES TO HELL
Why be sweet, why be careful, why be kind?
A man has only one thing on his mind
Why ask politely, why go lightly, why say please?
They only want to get you on your knees
There’s a few things I never could believe

A woman when she weeps
A merchant when he swears
A thief who says he'll pay
A lawyer when he cares
A snake when he is sleeping
A drunkard when he prays
I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good
Everything goes to hell, anyway

Laissez-faire mi amour, ce la vie
Shall I return to shore or swim back out to sea?
The world don't care what a soldier does in town
It's all hanging in the windows by the pound
I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good
Everything goes to hell, anyway

I only want to hear your purr and to hear you moan
There is another man who brings the money home
I don't want dishes in the sink
Don't ask me what I feel or what I think
There’s a few things I never could believe

A woman when she weeps
A merchant when he swears
A thief who says he'll pay
A lawyer when he cares
A snake when he is sleeping
A drunkard when he prays
I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good
Everything goes to hell, anyway

Everything goes to hell, anyway

Oh, everything goes to hell, anyway

CONEY ISLAND BABY
Every night she comes
To take me out to dreamland
When I'm with her, I'm the richest man in the town
She's a rose, she's a pearl
She's the spin on my world
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes
She's my Coney Island baby
She's my Coney Island girl
She's a princess, in a red dress
She's the moon in the mist to me
She's my Coney Island baby
She's my Coney Island girl

Every night she comes
To take me out to dreamland
When I'm with her, I'm the richest man in the town
She's a rose, she's a pearl
She's the spin on my world
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes
She's my Coney Island baby
She's my Coney Island girl
She's a princess, in a red dress
She's the moon in the mist to me
She's my Coney Island baby
She's my Coney Island girl
She's my Coney Island baby
She's my Coney Island girl

ALL THE WORLD IS GREEN
I fell into the ocean
When you became my wife
I risked it all against the sea
To have a better life
Marie you're the wild blue sky
And men do foolish things
You turn kings into beggars
And beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The face forgives the mirror
The worm forgives the plow
The questions begs the answer
Can you forgive me somehow
Maybe when our story's over
We'll go where it's always spring
The band is playing our song again
And all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
Can we bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The moon is yellow silver
Oh the things that summer brings
It's a love you'd kill for
And all the world is green
He is balancing a diamond
On a blade of grass
The dew will settle on our graves
When all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond
On a blade of grass
The dew will settle on our graves
When all the world is green

GOD’S AWAY ON BUSINESS
I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby
For a buck, for a buck
If you're looking for someone to pull you out of that ditch
You're out of luck, you're out of luck
Ship is sinking
But ship is sinking
Ship is sinking
There's leak, there's a leak, in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge
Killers, thieves and lawyers

God's away, God's away
God's away on business, business.
God's away, God's away
God's away on business, business.

Digging up the dead with a shovel and a pick
It's a job, it's a job
Bloody moon rising with a plague and a flood
Join the mob, join the mob
It's all over, it's all over, it's all over
There's a leak, there's a leak, in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves and lawyers
God's away, God's away, God's away
On business. business.
God's away, God's away
On business. Business
Ha!

Goddamn there's always such a big temptation
To be good, to be good
There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby
It's a deal, it's a deal
God's away, God's away, God's away
On business, business
God's away, God's away, God's away
On business, business

I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby,
Let her ring, let her ring
God's away, God's away, God's away
On business
God's away, God's away, God's away
On business, business

ANOTHER MAN’S VINE
Bougainvillea's bloom and wind
Be careful mind the strangle vines
The rose is climbing over blind
‘Cause the sun is on the other side
The bees will find their honey
The sweetest every time
Around a Red Rose
I see a red rose
A red rose blooming on another man's vine

Golden Willie's gone to war
He left his young wife on the shore
Will she be steadfast everyday?
While Golden Willie is far away
Along the way her letters end
She never reads what Willie sends
I see a red rose
I smell a red rose
A red rose blooming on another man's vine

KNIFE CHASE
(Instrumental)

LULLABY
Sun is red, moon is cracked
Daddy's never coming back
Nothing's ever yours to keep
Close your eyes, go to sleep
If I die before you wake
Don't you cry, don't you weep
Nothing's ever as it seems
Climb the ladder to your dreams
If I die before you wake
Don't you cry, don't you weep
Nothing's ever yours to keep
Close your eyes, go to sleep

STARVING IN THE BELLY OF A WHALE
Life is whittled
Life's a riddle
Man's a fiddle that life plays on
When the day breaks
And the earth quakes
Life's a mistake all day long
Tell me who gives a good goddamn
You'll never get out alive
Don't go dreaming
Don't go scheming
A man must test his mettle
In a crooked ol' world

Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly of a whale
Oh yeah, starving in the belly
Starving in the belly
Starving in the belly of a whale

Don't take my word
Just look skyward
They that dance must pay the fiddler
Sky is darkening
Dogs are barking
But the caravan moves on
You tell me who gives a good goddamn
You'll never get out alive
Don't go dreaming
Don't go scheming
A man must test his mettle
In a crooked ol world

Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly of a whale
Oh yeah, starving in the belly
Starving in the belly
Starving in the belly of a whale

The crow flies
It's there the truth lies
At the bottom of the well
E-o-leven
Goes to heaven
Bless the dead here as the rain falls
Don't trust a bull's horn
A doberman's tooth
A runaway horse or me
Don't be greedy, don't be needy
If you live dancing to a terrible tune

Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly
Starving in the Belly of a whale
Oh, starving in the belly
Starving in the belly
Starving in the belly of a whale

THE PART YOU THROW AWAY
You dance real slow
You wreck it down
Then you walk away, you’ll turn around

What did that old blonde gal say?
That is the part
You throw away

I want that beggars eyes
A winning horse
A tidy mexican divorce
St. Mary's prayers
Houdini's hands
A barman who always
Understands

Will you loose the flowers
Hold on to the vase?
Will you wipe all those teardrops
Away from your face?
Well I can't help thinking
As I close the door
I have done all of this
Many times before

But the bone must go
The wish can stay
The kiss don't know
What the lips will say
Forget I've hurt you
Put stones in your bed
And remember to never
Mind instead

Well all of your letters
Burned up in the fire
Time is just memory
Mixed with desire
That's not the road it is only the map...I say
Gone just like matches
From a closed down cabaret

In a Portuguese Saloon
A fly is circling and round on the room
You'll soon forget the tune that you play
‘Cause that is the part
You throw away
Oh that is the part
You throw away

WOE
The ribbon round your neck
Against your skin that's pale as bone
It is my favorite thing you've worn
The band is playing our song
And we won't go home,
'Til morn

CALLIOPE
(Instrumental)

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
Well I always play Russian roulette in my head
It's seventeen black and twenty-nine red
How far from the gutter, how far from the pew
I will always remember to forget about you

Good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
And my favorite words are good-bye
And my favorite color is red

A long dead soldier looks out from the frame
No one remembers his war, no one remembers his name
Go out to the meadow;, scare off all the crows
It does nothing but rain here, and nothing will grow

A good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
And my favorite words are good-bye
And my favorite color is, my favorite color is, my favorite color is red