Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues-Bryan Ferry

[00:05.07]Just like Tom Thumb's blues [00:05.95] [00:07.10]Bob Dylan [00:08.59] [00:09.65]When you're lost in the rain in Juarez [00:13.31]And it's eastertime too [00:18.73]And your gravity fails [00:20.91]And negativity don't pull you through [00:27.01]Don't put on any airs [00:29.82]When you're down on rue Morgue Avenue [00:37.25]They got some hungry women there [00:39.19]And they really make a mess outa you [00:45.30]Now if you see Saint Annie [00:48.16]Please tell her thanks a lot [00:52.26]I cannot move [00:56.26]My fingers are all in a knot [01:01.21]I don't have the strength [01:05.38]To get up and take another shot [01:10.94]And my best friend, my doctor [01:14.34]Won't even say what it is i've got [01:21.72]Sweet Melinda [01:23.48]The peasants call her the goddess of gloom [01:28.60]She speaks good English [01:32.36]And she invites you up into her room [01:38.08]But you get be cautious [01:41.61]And careful not to go to her too soon [01:47.54]'cause she takes your voice [01:50.30]And leaves you howling at the moon [01:56.78]Up on housing project hill [01:59.77]It's either fortune or fame [02:02.88]You must pick up one or the other [02:08.25]Though neither of them are to be what they claim [02:14.94]If you're lookin' to get silly [02:17.14]You better go back to from where you came [02:23.79]Because the cops don't need you [02:26.43]And man they expect the same [02:33.06]Now all the authorities [02:35.74]They just stand around and boast [02:41.57]How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms [02:45.90]Into leaving his post [02:51.28]And picking up angel who [02:54.06]Just arrived here from the coast [02:59.71]Who looked so fine at first [03:02.30]But left looking just like a ghost [03:44.53]I started out on burgundy [03:48.32]But soon hit the harder stuff [03:52.49]Everybody said they'd stand behind me [03:57.88]When the game got rough [04:03.20]But the joke was on me [04:05.33]There was nobody even there to call my bluff [04:11.99]I'm going back to New York city [04:14.95]I do believe i've had enough