WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND - TOM WAITS I grew up here now all of my life But I dreamed someday I'd go Where the blue-eyed girls and red guitars and The naked rivers flow I'm not all I thought I'd be I always stayed around I've been as far as Mercy and Grand Frozen to the ground I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave Just kiss me once and then I'll go to hell, I might as well Be whistlin' down the wind [Break] The bus is at the corner The clock on the wall Broken down windmill There's no wind at all I've yelled and I cursed If I stay here I'll rust I'm stuck like a shipwreck Out here in the dust [Instrumental Break] The sky is red and the world's on fire And the corn is taller than me The dog is tied to a wagon of rain And the road is as wet as the sea And sometimes the music from a dance Will carry across the plains And the places that I'm dreaming of Do they dream only of me? There are places where they never sleep And the circus never ends So I will take the Marleybone coach And be whistling down the wind so I will take the Marleybone coach Whistling down the wind