Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tommy (Band Arrangement), artist - Kelly Joe Phelps. Album song Beggars Oil, in the genre Блюз
Date of issue: 04.02.2002
Record label: Rykodisc
Song language: English
Tommy (Band Arrangement) |
Tommy had a watch, a good kind of watch |
It wouldn’t tell time if you asked it |
Didn’t have a face, just an ear and an eye |
To see him with |
Tommy stole candy from the cornerstore |
And gave it to the mice he built a home for |
By the side of the heater, next to his guitar |
That he could neither play nor destroy |
Tommy wrote a letter to the office of iniquity |
Demanding a history of his actions |
But the letter was returned just 2 days gone |
There was no office of iniquity |
Tommy couldn’t see so well and he didn’t have a radio |
He’d talk to himself in different voices |
Or sing to himself in a Russian dialect |
Invented on a Sunday afternoon |
Tommy stole a limp and he borrowed a demeanor |
So he’d scare anybody who’d want to talk away |
'Cause they frightened him so bad that he’d pee down his legs |
As he tried, very hard, to find the words |
Tommy wore the helmet of a frustrated miner |
Digging for words as though gold |
Standing in the mud in his dark gray fedora |
Wearing his knee-patched dungarees |
Tommy was alone when the fire started |
High behind the wheel of a colt 45 |
With a clip full of ether and a bucket full of gas |
And a belly full of turpentine |
Tommy made sure there was no one in danger |
By knocking on each door like a madman |
Then he locked himself in and did the whirling dervish |
Tipped the candle over on the floor |
Tommy fell asleep before the firemen came |
Which was good because they scared him anyway |
All that they found were the mice inside the fridge |
In a box, with some cheese |
And a handwarmer, run on batteries |
Tommy was a good man. |
Nobody Knew |
Tommy was a good man. |
Nobody Knew |