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Tom Waits - Fumblin' With the Blues (Live)

Fumblin' With the Blues
Tom Waits
02:13
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Friday left me fumbling with the blues
And it's hard to win when you always lose
Because the nightspots spend your spirit,
Beat your head against the wall,
Two dead ends and you've still got to 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-shyster shaking my head
When I should be living clean instead

You know the ladies I've been seeing off and on,
Well they spend your love and then they're gone,
You can't be lovin' someone who is savage and cruel,
Take your love and then they leave on out of town, no they do

Well now falling in love is such a breeze
But its standing up that's so hard for me
I wanna squeeze you but I'm scared to death I'd break your back
You know your perfume well it won't let me be

And you know the bartenders all know my name
And they 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 instead

Well, come on baby let your love light shine,
Gotta bury me inside of your fire
Because 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

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