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
