Lyrics The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) - Tom Waits
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
My
necktie
is
asleep,
And
the
combo
went
back
to
New
York,
The
jukebox
has
to
take
a
leak,
And
the
carpet
needs
a
haircut,
And
the
spotlight
looks
like
a
prison
break,
'Cause
the
telephone's
out
of
cigarettes,
And
the
balcony
is
on
the
make,
And
the
piano
has
been
drinking.
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
And
the
menus
are
all
freezing,
And
the
light
man's
blind
in
one
eye,
And
he
can't
see
out
of
the
other,
And
the
piano
tuner's
got
a
hearing
aid,
And
he
showed
up
with
his
mother,
And
the
piano
has
been
drinking.
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
As
the
bouncer
is
a
Sumo
wrestler,
Cream-puff
casper
milktoast,
And
the
owner
is
a
mental
midget,
With
the
I.Q.
of
a
fence
post,
'Cause
the
piano
has
been
drinking.
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
And
you
can't
find
your
waitress,
With
a
Geiger
counter,
And
she
hates
you
and
your
friends,
And
you
just
can't
get
served
without
her,
And
the
box-office
is
drooling,
And
the
bar
stools
are
on
fire,
And
the
newspapers
were
fooling,
And
the
ashtrays
have
retired,
'Cause
the
piano
has
been
drinking.
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
The
piano
has
been
drinking,
Not
me,
Not
me,
Not
me,
Not
me,
Not
me.
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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