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It's friday! and i've decided to continue this through the weekend. so you can have two more days of tom waits lyrics after today. i'm obviously not getting to all of his albums, but i'm trying to get to all of my favorites. however, i missed Franks Wild Years from 1987. it's a great album, but i have better things to get to. So, right on to Swordfishtrombones. Here is the song Franks Wild Years, and it's one of his talking songs...his spoken word if you will.

Franks WIld Years

by Tom Waits

Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and he hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4% and put a downpayment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent peice of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had somekind of skin disease
and was totally blind
they had a thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy
One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liqour store
picked up a couple of Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it
parked across the street laughing
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed north
Never could stand that dog