You'll Never Be Going Back Home

inside a broken clock
splashing the wine
with all the raindogs
taxi? we'd rather walk
huddle a doorway
with the rain dogs
for i am a rain dog too
o how we danced
we swallowed
the night
for it was all ripe
for dreaming
o how we danced
away all
of the lights
we've always been
out of our minds

o how we danced with the rose of tralee
her long hair dark
as the raven
o how we danced and
she whispered to me
you'll never be going back home

--tom waits (from "rain dogs")