Tom Waits Invitation To The Blues

Listen to the full album: Invitation To The Blues by Tom Waits from the album Small Change Lyrics Well she s up against the register with an apron and a spatula with yesterday s deliveries and the tickets for the bachelors she s a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes but it s just an invitation to the blues and you feel just like Cagney looks like Rita Hayworth at the counter of the Schwab s Drugstore you wonder if she might be single she s a loner likes to mingle got to be patient and pick up a clue she says howyougonnalikem, over medium or scrambled anyways the only way be careful not to gamble on a guy with a suitcase and a ticket gettin out of here it s a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes but it ain t nothin but an invitation to the blues but you can t take your eyes off her get another cup of java and i