Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down
Tom Waits

Well they call me William the Pleaser

I sold opium fireworks and lead

now I'm telling my troubles to strangers

when the shadows get long I'll be dead


now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar

her skin as white as a cuttlefish bone

I left Texas to follow Lucinda

Nnw I'll never see heaven or home


I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight

a sly grin and a bowl full of stars

like a kid who captures a firefly

and leaves it only to die in the jar


as I kick at the clouds at my hanging

as I swing out over the crowd

I will search every face for Lucinda's

and she will go off with me down to hell


I thought I'd broke loose of Lucinda

the rain returned and so did the wind

I cast this burden on the god that is within me

and I'll leave this old world and go free


the devil dances inside empty pockets

but she never wanted money or pearls

no that wasn't enough for Lucinda

she wasn't that kind of girl


now I've fallen from grace for Lucinda

whoever thought that hell he'd so low

I did well for an old tin can sailor

but she wanted the bell in my soul


I've spoken the god on the mountain

I've swam in the Irish sea

I ate fire and drank from the Ganges

I'll beg there for mercy for me


I thought I'd broke loose from Lucinda

the rain returned and so did the wind

I was standing outside the Whitehorse

oh but I was afraid to go in


I heard someone pull the trigger

her breasts heaved in the moonlight again

there was a smear of gold in the window

and then I was the jewel of her sin


they call me William the Pleaser

I sold opium fireworks and lead

now I'm telling my troubles to strangers

when the shadows get long I'll be dead



her hair was a black as a bucket of tar

skin as white as a cuttlefish bone

I left Texas to follow Lucinda

I know I'll never see heaven or home


Ain't goin' down

ain't goin' down

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

no more


ain't goin' down

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

no more


I'm a true believer

I'm a true believer

believer


ain't goin' down

ain't goin' down

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

no more

ain't goin' down


if I ever get able

if I ever get able

able

to pay this debt I owe

ain't goin' down

I ain't goin' down

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

no more


ain't goin' down

momma to the well

momma to the well

momma to the well

no more

ain't goin' down


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In C...   Tom Traubert\'s Blues   Tom Traubert’s Blues   Top Of The Hill   Town With No Cheer   Train Song   Trampled Rose   Trouble's Braids   Trouble\'s Braids   Twenty Nine Dollars   U in Me (Bonus Track)   Underground   Union Square   Unpretty   Unpretty (Don\'t Look Any Further Remix With Rap)   Virginia Ave   Virginia Ave.   Virginia Avenue   Walk Away   Walking Spanish   Warm Beer and Cold Women   Watch Her Disappear   Waterfalls   Way Down in the Hole   Way Down Inthe   We're All Mad Here   What About Your Friends   What Keeps Mankind Alive   What's He Building?   What\'s He Building?   When You Ain't Got Nobody   WHEN YOU AIN\'T GOT NOBODY   Whislin Past The Graveyard   Whistle Down the Wind   Whistlin' Past the Graveyard   Whistlin'past The Graveyard   Whistlin\' Past The Graveyard   Who Are You   Woe   Wrong Side of the Road   Yesterday Is Here   You Can't Unring a Bell   You Can\'t Unring a Bell

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