ALICE

It's dreamy weather

we're on.

You wave your crooked wand

along an icy pond,

with a frozen moon.

A murder of silhouette,

crows I saw...

And the tears on my face,

and the skates on the pond,

they spell Alice.

I'll disappear in your name,

but you must wait for me-

Somewhere across the sea ...

There's the wreck of a ship

Your hair like meadow grass-

On the tide

and the raindrops on my window,

and the ice in my drink ,

Baby, all I can think of

is Alice.

Arithme-tic~~~~Arithme-toc

I turn the hands back on the clock.

How does the ocean rock the boat?

How did the razor find my throat?

The only strings that hold me here

are tangled up around 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

Set me adrift,

and I'm lost -over there

But I must be insane~

To go skating on your name

And ,by tracing it twice

I fell trough the ice

Of Alice

There's only Alice

                                                 Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan