Claudia Bettinaglio Invitation To The Blues

Album: Saving All My Love, Tom Waits cover Buy: Lyrics: Well she s up against the register with an apron and a spatula, Yesterday s deliveries, tickets for the bachelors She s a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes Well, it s just an invitation to the blues And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita Hayworth At the counter of the Schwab s drugstore You wonder if she might be single, she s a loner and likes to mingle Got to be patient, try and pick up a clue She said How you gonna like em, over medium or scrambled You say anyway s the only way, be careful not to gamble On a guy with a suitcase and a ticket getting out of here It s a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes This ain t nothing but an invitation to the blues But you can t take your eyes off her, get another cup of java It s just the way she pours it for you, joking with the customers Mercy mercy, Mr. Percy, there ain t nothing back in Jersey But a brokendown jalopy of a man I left behind And the