Trampled Rose - Tom Waits

Long way going to

Get my medicine

Sky’s the autumn grey of

A lonely wren

Piano from a window played

Gone tomorrow, gone

Yesterday

I found it in the street

At first I did not see

Lying at my feet a

Trampled rose

Passing the hat in church

It never stops going round

You never pay just once

To get the job done

What I done to me, I done

To you

What happened to

The trampled rose?

In the muddy street, with

The fireworks and leaves

A blind man with a cup I asked

Would he play «Kisses Sweeter

Than Wine»

I know that rose like I

Know my name, the

One I gave my love

It was the same, now

I find it in the street

A trampled rose