Song | The Fall Of Troy |
Artist | Tom Waits |
Album | Tales From The Underground 2 |
It’s the same with men as with horses and dogs | |
Nothing wants to die | |
Ethel and James they killed in a game | |
With guns too big for their hands | |
Just off St. Charles in no man’s land | |
And you’ll have to find your own way home, boys | |
You’ll have to find your own way home | |
The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year old boy | |
Shot dead in March in a robbery | |
His brothers started out to hell and to ruin | |
Troy’s killer was never caught, they say | |
Young Nick, he just went bad that day | |
Now he’ll have to find his own way home, boys | |
He’ll have to find his own way home | |
Why cook dinner, why make my bed | |
Why come home at all? | |
Out the door and through the woods | |
There’s a world where nothing grows | |
It’s hard to say grace and to sit in the place | |
Of someone missing at the table | |
Mom’s hair sprayed tight and her face in her hands | |
Watching TV for answers to me | |
After all she’s only human | |
And she’s trying to find her own way home, boys | |
She’s trying to find her own way home | |
My legs ache, my heart is sore | |
The well is full of pennies |
It' s the same with men as with horses and dogs | |
Nothing wants to die | |
Ethel and James they killed in a game | |
With guns too big for their hands | |
Just off St. Charles in no man' s land | |
And you' ll have to find your own way home, boys | |
You' ll have to find your own way home | |
The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year old boy | |
Shot dead in March in a robbery | |
His brothers started out to hell and to ruin | |
Troy' s killer was never caught, they say | |
Young Nick, he just went bad that day | |
Now he' ll have to find his own way home, boys | |
He' ll have to find his own way home | |
Why cook dinner, why make my bed | |
Why come home at all? | |
Out the door and through the woods | |
There' s a world where nothing grows | |
It' s hard to say grace and to sit in the place | |
Of someone missing at the table | |
Mom' s hair sprayed tight and her face in her hands | |
Watching TV for answers to me | |
After all she' s only human | |
And she' s trying to find her own way home, boys | |
She' s trying to find her own way home | |
My legs ache, my heart is sore | |
The well is full of pennies |