#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:21:15 +0200 From: Morten Sickel Subject: Fumblin' with the blues, Tom Waits {t:Fumblin' with the blues} {st: Tom Waits} [Am]Friday left me [E7]fumblin' with the [Am]blues And it's hard to win when [F]you always [E]lose Because the [Am]nightspots spend your spirit beat your [Dm]head against the wall [Am]two dead-ends you [E7]still got to [Am]choose You know the bartenders they all know my name and they catch me when I'm pulling up lame and I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyester shaking my head when I should be living clean in stead You know the ladies I've been seeing off and on well they spend your love then they're gone you can't be loving someone who is savage and cruel Take your love and then they leave on out of town No they do {c:solo} When I'm falling in love, It's such a breeze but it's standing up that's so hard for me I wanna sqeeze you but I'm scared to death I'll break your back instead You know your perfume, well it won't let me be You know the bartenders they all know my name and they'll catch me when I'm pulling up lame and I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head when I should be living clean in stead so come on baby, let your love light shine gotta bury me inside of your fire cause your eyes are enough to blind me you're like a-looking at the sun you gotta whisper tell me I'm the one come on and whisper tell me I'm the one gotta whisper tell me I'm the one come on and whisper tell me I'm the one # Morten.Sickel@nrpa.no # Comments are welcome