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Hows It Gonna End

Tom Waits

        a          C          d

He had three whole dollars, a worn out car

a              E           a

A wife who was leaving for good

a              C        d

Life's made of trouble, worry, pain and struggle

                  F                  E

She wrote goodbye in the dust on the hood

d                             a

They found a map of Missouri, lipstick on a glass

d                          F             E

They must have left in the middle of the night

 

d          E                a         

And I..    want to know the same thing

                  d     E                 a

Everyone wants to know, how's it going to end

 

Behind the smoke coloured curtain the girl disappeared

They found out that the ring was a fake

A tree born crooked will never grow straight

She sunk like a hammer into the lake

Long lost letter and an old leaky boat

Promises are never meant to keep

And I want to know the same thing

I wanna know how's it going to end

 

The barn leaned over, the vultures dried their wings

The moon climbed up an empty sky

The sun sank down behind the tree on a hill

There's a killer and he's coming through the rye

But maybe he's the father of that lost little girl

It's hard to tell in this light

 

And I want to know the same thing

Everyone wants to know how's it going to end

 

Tied your wagon and you plough over the bones of the dead

Out among the roses and the weeds

And you can never go back and the answer is no

And wishing for it only makes it bleed

 

Joe Tornabenny was broken on the whell

Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb

The grain was as gold as Sheila's hair

All the way from Liverpool with all we could steal

He was robbed of twenty dollars his body found stripped

Cast inot the harbour there and drowned

 

And I want to know the same thing

We all wanna know how's it going to end


 

 

 

 

The sirens are snaking their way up the hill

I'ts last call somewhere in the world

The reptiles blend in with the colour of the street

Life is sweet at the edge of a razor

And down in the first row of an old picture show

An old man is asleep the credit starts to roll

 

And I want to know the same thing

We all wanna know how's it going to end

I want to know the same thing

We all wanna know how's it going to end

And I just wanna know the same thing

I wanna know how's it going to end