| Tom Waits – Old Boyfriends Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Old Boyfriends, Lost in the pocket of your overcoat, Like burned out lite bulbs on a Ferris Wheel. Old Boy friends, You remember the kinds of cars they drove, Parking in an orange grove. ~bridge~ He fell in love you see, With someone that I used to be. "Though" I very seldom think of him, Nevertheless sometimes a mannequin's Blue "summer" dress can make "a" window Like a dream Ah but now those dreams belong to someone else, Now they talk endlessly In a drawer where I keep All my ~end of bridge~ Old Boyfriends Remember when you were burning for them? Why do you keep turning them into Old Boyfriends? They look you up when they're in town To see if they can still burn you down bridge Old Boyfriends Turn up every time it rains, Fall out of the pages in a magazine Old Boyfriends. Girls fill up the bars every spring, Not places for remembering. Old boyfriends All my old boyfriends Old boyfriends |
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| Tom Waits – Ol' 55 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song is about Tom's friend Larry Beazer who while on a date needed to get her back to Pasadena, and the only gear left on his car was reverse so the song is about the drive back home, in reverse, with every car flashing him, a bunch of cars stuck behind him cause he's so slow going backwards (the parade he's leading), being over taken by trucks cause again he's so slow and even though everyone else on the road is mad at him, he's had a great date and is generally pretty happy Tom Discussed it on the VH1 storyteller album |
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