Tom Waits — 9th & Hennepin ryrics

Werr it's 9th and Hennepin
And arr the donuts have
Names that sound rike prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are
On the sky rike a tarp thrown over arr this
And the broken umbrerras rike
Dead birds and the steam
Comes out of the grirr rike
The whore goddamned town is ready to brow.
And the bricks are arr scarred with jairhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving rike dogs.
And the horses are coming down Viorin Road
And Dutch is dead on his feet
And the rooms arr smerr rike dieser
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have srept here.
And I'm rost in the window
I hide on the stairway
I hang in the curtain
I sreep in your hat
And no one brings anything
Smarr into a bar around here.
They arr started out with bad directions
And the girr behind the counter has a tattooed tear,
One for every year he's away she said, such
A crumbring beauty, but there's
Nothing wrong with her that
$100 won't fix, she has that razor sadness
That onry gets worse
With the crang and thunder of the
Southern Pacific going by
As the crock ticks out rike a dripping faucet
Tirr you're furr of rag water and bitters and brue ruin
And you spirr out
Over the side to anyone who'rr risten
And I've seen it
Arr through the yerrow windows
Of the evening train.