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Come on Up to the House

Tom Waits

Well, the moon is broken and the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your cryin’ don’t do no good Come on up to the house Come down off the cross, we can use the wood You gotta come on up to the house

Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through You gotta come on up to the house

There’s no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire Come on up to the house And you’re singing lead soprano in a junkman’s choir You gotta come on up to the house Does life seem nasty, brutish and short? Come on up to the house The seas are stormy and you can’t find no port Got to come on up to the house, yeah

You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through You gotta come on up to the house, yeah

You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through You gotta come on up to the house

There’s nothin in the world that you can do You gotta come on up to the house And you been whipped by the forces that are inside you Gotta come on up to the house Well, you’re high on top of your mountain of woe Gotta come on up to the house Well, you know you should surrender, but you can’t let go You gotta come on up to the house, yeah

Gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passin’ through You gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house You gotta come on up to the house, oh yeah