Alice album cover

Tom Waits – Alice Lyrics

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It's dreamy weather
And I'm naked, crooked, worn
Along an icy pond
With a frozen moon
And a murder of silhouette crows that I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice

I disappeared in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
And your hair is like meadow grass
On the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
And baby, all I can think of
Is Alice

Arithmetic, arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How did the ocean rock the boat?
And how did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up beneath the pier

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Take me away
And I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

And so a secret kiss
It brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Take me away
And I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
There's only Alice

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