just like tom thumb's blues

when you're lost in the rain in juarez

and it's eastertime too

and your gravity fails

and negativity don't pull you through

don't put on any airs

when you're down on rue morgue avenue

they got some hungry women there

and they really make a mess outa you. now if you see saint annie

please tell her thanks a lot

i cannot move

my fingers are all in a knot

i don't have the strength

to get up and take another shot

and my best friend

my doctor

won't even tell me what i've got. sweet melinda

the peasants call her the goddess of gloom

she speaks good english

and she takes you up into her room

and you're so kind

and careful not to go to her too soon

and she takes your voice

and leaves you howling at the moon. i started out on burgundy

but soon hit the harder stuff

everybody said they'd stand behind me

when the game got rough

but the joke was on me

there was nobody to call my bluff

i'm going back to new york city

i think i have enough.