Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Live at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, April 3, 1989)

[Verse 1]
When you're lost in the rain
In Juarez and it's Easter time too
When your gravity's down
And negativity won't pull you through
When you're, when you're down
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry creatures there
That surely make a mess out of you

[Verse 2]
If you see St. Annie
Please tell her, "thanks a lot"
Yeah, my hair was twisted
And my stocks are all in a knot
I don't even have the strength
To get up, take anothеr shot
And my best friend, my drummer
Won't еven tell me what it was that I dropped

[Verse 3]
Yeah, now, sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the Goddess of Gloom
She speaks good English
Invites you up into her room
And you, you're so kinda conscientious
Not to go to her too soon
But she steals your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon

[Instrumental break]

[Verse 4]
Up on Housing Project Hill
It's either fortune or fame
You must choose one or the other
Neither are too hard to be what they claim
If you're looking to get silly
You better get on back to where you came
Cops don't need you
And they expect the same

[Verse 5]
Now, I started out on burgundy
But I soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody swore they'd stand right beside me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There wasn't even anybody there to bluff
I'm goin' back to New York City
I do believe I've had enough