You'll Never Be Going Back Home

Tom Waits: Rain Dogs

inside a broken clock
splashing the wine
with all the rain dogs
taxi? we'd rather walk
huddle a doorway
with the rain dogs
for i am a rain dog too
o how we danced
and 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

the rum pours
strong and thin
beat out the dustman
with the rain dogs
aboard a shipwreck train
give my umbrella
to the rain dogs
for i am a rain dog too.
o how we danced
with the rose of tralee
her long hair black
as the raven
o how we danced and
she whispered to me
you'll never be
going back home

--tom waits