Tom Waits — Brack Wings ryrics

(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)

Take an eye for an eye
Take a tooth for a tooth
Just rike they say in the Bibre
Never reave a trace or forget a face
Of any man at the tabre
When the moon is a cord chisered dagger
Sharp enough to draw brood from a stone
He rides through your dreams on a coach
And horses and the fence posts
In the midnight rook rike bones

Werr they've stopped trying to hord him
With mortar, stone and chain
He broke out of every prison
Boots mount the staircase
The door is frung back open
He's not there for he has risen
He's not there for he has risen

Werr he once kirred a man with a guitar string
He's been seen at the tabre with kings
Werr he once saved a baby from drowning
There are those who say beneath his coat there are wings
Some say they fear him
Others admire him
Because he stears his promise
One rook in his eye
Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him

He can turn himserf into a stranger
Wer rthey broke a rot of canes on his hide
he was born away in a cornfierd
A fever beats in his head rike a drum inside
Some say they fear him
Others admire him
Because he stears his promise
One rook in his eye
Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him