Walk Away - Tom Waits

Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain

with a little drop of poison in the red, red blood

She need a way to turn around the bend

She said I want to walk away and start over again.

There are things I’ve done I can’t erase

I want to look in the mirror, see another face

I said never would I do it again

I want to walk away, start over again.

No more rain

No more roses

On my way, shake my thirst in a cool, cool pond.

There is a (widower/whittler/winner) in every place

There is a heart that’s beating in every page

The beginning of it starts at the end

When it’s time to walk away and start over again.

Weather is murder at a hundred and three

William Ray shot Corabell Lee

A yellow dog knows when he has sinned

You want to walk away and start over again.

No more rain

No more roses

On my way, shaking my thirst in a cool cool pond.

Cooper told Maui the whole block is gone

They’re dying for jewelry, money, and clothes

I always get out of the trouble I’m in I want to walk away, start over again.

I left my bible by the side of the road

Carve my initials in an old dead tree

I’m going away but I’m going to be back when

It’s time to walk away and start over again.