Lyrics Invitation To The Blues - Tom Waits
Well
she's
up
against
the
register
with
an
apron
and
a
spatula,
Yesterday's
deliveries,
tickets
for
the
bachelors
She's
a
moving
violation
from
her
conk
down
to
her
shoes
Well,
it's
just
an
invitation
to
the
blues
And
you
feel
just
like
Cagney,
she
looks
like
Rita
Hayworth
At
the
counter
of
the
Schwab's
drugstore
You
wonder
if
she
might
be
single,
she's
alone
and
likes
to
mingle
Got
to
be
patient,
try
and
pick
up
a
clue
She
said
"How
you
gonna
like
'em,
over
medium
or
scrambled?"
You
say
"Anyway's
the
only
way",
be
careful
not
to
gamble
On
a
guy
with
a
suitcase
and
a
ticket
getting
out
of
here
It's
a
tired
bus
station
and
an
old
pair
of
shoes
This
ain't
nothing
but
an
invitation
to
the
blues
But
you
can't
take
your
eyes
off
her,
get
another
cup
of
java
It's
just
the
way
she
pours
it
for
you,
joking
with
the
customers
Mercy
mercy,
Mr.
Percy,
there
ain't
nothing
back
in
Jersey
But
a
broken-down
jalopy
of
a
man
I
left
behind
And
the
dream
that
I
was
chasing,
and
a
battle
with
booze
And
an
open
invitation
to
the
blues
But
she
used
to
have
a
sugar
daddy
and
a
candy-apple
Caddy
And
a
bank
account
and
everything,
accustomed
to
the
finer
things
He
probably
left
her
for
a
socialite,
and
he
didn't
love
her
'cept
at
night
And
then
he's
drunk
and
never
even
told
her
that
her
cared
So
they
took
the
registration,
and
the
car
keys
and
her
shoes
And
left
her
with
an
invitation
to
the
blues
'Cause
there's
a
Continental
Trailways
leaving
local
bus
tonight,
good
evening
You
can
have
my
seat,
I'm
sticking
round
here
for
a
while
Get
me
a
room
at
the
Squire,
the
filling
station's
hiring,
And
I
can
eat
here
every
night,
what
the
hell
have
I
got
to
lose?
Got
a
crazy
sensation,
go
or
stay?
now
I
gotta
choose,
And
I'll
accept
your
invitation
to
the
blues
1 Step Right Up
2 Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To the Wind In Copenhagen)
3 Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie)
4 I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
5 The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
6 Invitation To The Blues
7 Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell)
8 Pasties and a G-String (at the Two O’Clock club)
9 Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
10 The One That Got Away
11 I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)
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