Tom Waits A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun 1979

Well, it’s raining it’s pouring(2) you didn’t bring a sweater Nebraska will never let you come back home Now on Hollywood and Vine(3) by the Thrifty Mart sign any night I’ll be willin’ to bet There’s a young girl with sweet little dreams and pretty blue wishes standin’ there just gettin’ all wet Now there’s a place off the drag(4) called the Gilbert Hotel(5) and there’s a couple letters burned out in the sign And it’s better than a bus stop they do good business every time it rains for little girls with nothing in their jeans but pretty blue wishes and sweet little jeans And it’s raining it’s pouring the old man is snoring Now I lay me down to sleep(6) I hear the sirens in the street All my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe(7) and you could throw my dreams out in the street and let the r