[ti:Shore Leave]
[ar:Tom Waits]
[al:Beautiful Maladies: The Island]
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[00:05.68]Shore Leave - Tom Waits
[00:33.38]Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
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[00:39.01]I rolled down the national stroll
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[00:41.26]and with a big fat paycheck
[00:42.76]strapped to my hip sack
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[00:45.26]and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
[00:46.57]my sleeve
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[00:49.82]in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
[00:51.76]
[00:53.38]I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
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[00:58.76]and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
[01:03.99]and was in a bad need of a shave
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[01:08.30]and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
[01:11.24]and shot billards with a midget
[01:12.93]until the rain stopped
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[01:16.37]and I bought a long sleeved shirt
[01:18.18]with horses on the front
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[01:20.05]and some gum and a lighter and a knife
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[01:22.55]and a new deck of cards （with girls on the back）
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[01:26.30]and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife
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[01:31.18]and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
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[01:39.68]and I miss my Baby so
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[01:45.49]I can't make it by myself
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[01:49.49]I love you so
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[01:56.30]Well I was pacing myself
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[01:58.68]trying to make it all last
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[02:01.12]squeezing all the life
[02:02.43]out of a lousy two day pass
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[02:05.51]and I had a cold one at the Dragon
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[02:08.01]with some Filipino floor show
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[02:10.76]and talked baseball with a lieutenant
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[02:12.95]over a Singapore sling
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[02:15.38]and I wondered how the same moon outside
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[02:17.82]over this Chinatown fair
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[02:20.63]could look down on Illinois
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[02:22.95]and find you there
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[02:25.57]and you know I love you Baby
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[02:28.57]and I'm so far away from home
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[02:30.88]and I miss my Baby so
[02:33.82]
[02:40.32]I can't make it by myself
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[02:45.32]I love you so
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[03:35.95]Shore Leave...
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[03:37.57]Shore Leave...
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