Tom Waits

On a Foggy Night

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It's all upon a foggy night, an abandoned road
In a twilight mirror mirage
No indication of any kind of service station
Or an all night garage, I was misinformed
I was misdirected cause the interchange never intersected
Leaving me marooned beneath a bloodshot moon
All upon a foggy night, foggy night
All upon a foggy night
It's kind of an abandoned road, blurred brocade collage
Is that a road motel? I can't really tell
You gotta tell me is that a vacancy lodge?
There's no consolation, what kind of situation
To be aimlessly askew amidst a powder blue?
No tell tail light clue, yeah, spun like just like a spell you spin
This precarious pandemonium
? I'm stranded, all upon a foggy night

Like a sweepstake ticket or a Broadway arcade
Heads you win, tails I lose
And rambling, gambling all upon a foggy night
Foggy night, foggy night, foggy night
Got the vice grips on my personality
It's all upon a foggy night
All upon a foggy night
All upon a foggy night
On a foggy night
All upon a foggy, all upon a foggy night

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thief_of_time On Jul 03, 2007

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