Lyrics How's It Gonna End - Tom Waits

How's It Gonna End

He had 3 whole dollars
A worn out car
And a wife who was
Leaving for good
Life’s made of trouble
Worry pain and struggle
She wrote good bye in
The dust on the hood
They found a map of Missouri
Lipstick on the glass
They must’ve left
In the middle of the night
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How’s it going to end?
Behind a smoke colored 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
A long lost letter and
And old leaky boat
Promises are never meant
To keep
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to 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 the hill
There’s a killer and he’s coming
Thru 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?
Drag your wagon and your plow
Over the bones of the dead
Out among the roses and the weeds
You can never go back
And the answer is no
And wishing for it only makes it bleed
Joel Tornabene was broken
On the wheel
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 into the harbour
There and drowned
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How’s it going to end?
The sirens are snaking
Their way up the hill
It’s last call somewhere in the world
The reptiles blend in with the
Color of the street
Life is sweet at the edge of a razor
And down in the front row of
An old picture show
The old man is asleep
As the credits start to roll
And I want to know
The same thing
We all want to know
How’s it going to end?
I want to know
The same thing
We all want to know
How’s it going to end?
And then I just
Want to know just the same thing
I don’t want to know
How’s it going to end