Thousand Bing Bangs-Tom Waits

[00:00.21]TW: She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors and a sewing machine [00:22.41]in the back [00:22.62]KN: Thousand bing bangs near the end. Nothing's ever what it was [00:28.89]TW: And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg was mounted up [00:32.73]front on the hood [00:34.92]KN: Had myself a kind of brainstorm. Took a table spoon of buzz [00:41.16]TW: And she had a tattoo gun that she'd made herself from a cassette [00:46.35]motor and a guitar string [00:48.12]KN: X-ray eyes can see right through me. Naked thought, put on your [00:55.62]clothes [00:56.13]TW: And she always had leaves in her hair [01:01.17]KN: You hear that funny laughing? Just the caw of ancient crows [01:08.88]TW: And she cut two holes in the back of her dress, cause she had these [01:13.65]scapular wings [01:16.23]KN: Somewhere near the raveled edges, by the pool of Think-a-Bit [01:21.36]TW: And they were covered with feathers and electrical tape, and when [01:27.09]she got good and drunk she would sing [01:31.56]KN: Once again the notion hits me: Half is quite a bit of wit [01:36.15]TW: About Elkhart, Indiana, where the wind is tall and folks mind their [01:44.04]own business [01:46.08]KN: Power up that upper story. Ten percent is all you use [01:50.13]TW: And she had a hundred old baseballs that she'd taken from kids, and [01:59.88]she collected bones of all kinds [02:03.96]KN: Take a flight of simple fancy. You're the one who has to choose [02:09.51]TW: And she lived in a trailer under the bridge, and she made her own [02:14.64]whiskey and gave cigarettes to kids [02:16.95]KN: Okay. All right for you. Look into the tiger's eye [02:26.31]TW: And she'd been struck by lightning seven or eight times, and she [02:30.27]hated the mention of rain [02:32.55]KN: See if you can see the desert. Pour a drink, my throat is dry [02:39.99]TW: And she made up her own language and she wore rubber boots. She [02:47.25]could fix anything with string [02:49.62]KN: Poetry ain't gonna catch me. Climb up this high plateau [02:59.16]TW: And her lips were like cherries, and she was stronger than any man, [03:04.53]and she smelled like nutmeg and piss [03:08.64]KN: Finish up what you were thinking, just a day or so ago [03:13.29]TW: And she put mud on a bee sting I got at the crick, and she gave me [03:22.41]my very first kiss [03:26.70]KN: Illustrate for visionaries: Go buy a doodle pad. Basically