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