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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
Lyrics for Album: Blue Valentine [1978]



Well it's raining it's pouring

you didn't bring a sweater

Nebraska will never let you come back home



Now on Hollywood and Vine

by the Thrifty Mart sign

any night I'll be willin' to bet



there's a young girl

with sweet little dreams and pretty blue wishes

standin' there just gettin' all wet



Now there's a place off the drag

called the Gilbert Hotel

and there's a couple letters

burned out in the sign



and it's better than a bus stop

they do good business every time it rains

for little girls with nothing in their jeans

but pretty blue wishes and sweet little dreams



and its raining its pouring

the old man is snoring

now I lay me down to sleep

I hear the sirens in the street

all my dreams are made of chrome

I have no way to get back home

I'd rather die before I wake

like Marilyn Monroe(7)

and you could throw my dreams out in the street

and let the rain make 'em grow



now the night clerk he got a club foot

he's heard every hard luck story

at least a hundred times or more



he says check out time is 10 am

and that's just what it means

go on up the stairs

with sweet little wishes and pretty blue dreams



and it's raining its pouring

and Hollywood's just fine

swindle a little girl out of her dreams

another letter in the sign



now never trust a scarecrow wearin' shades after dark

be careful of that old bow tie he wears

it takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun

to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair



no that ain't no cherry bomb

fourth of July's all done

just some fool playin that second line

from the barrel of a pretty blue gun



o that ain't no cherry bomb

fourth of July's all done

just some fool playin' that second line

from the barrel of a pretty blue gun


Album Lyrics: Blue Valentine [1978]


Tom Waits
"Blue Valentine [1978]"


1. Somewhere
2. Red Shoes By The Drugstore
3. Christmas Cards From A Hooker In Minneapolis
4. Romeo Is Bleeding
5. $29.00
6. A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun