“I smoke my friends down to the filter.” Tom Waits

Tom Waits: Little Drop Of Poison

Lyrics

I like my town with a little drop of poison
Nobody knows, they’re lining up to go insane
I’m all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter
But I feel much cleaner after it rains
And she left in the fall, that’s her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison
Did the Devil make the world while God was sleeping
You’ll never get a wish from a bone
Another wrong goodbye and a hundred sailors
That deep blue sky is my home
And she left in the fall, that’s her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison
A rat always knows when he’s in with weasels
Here you lose a little every day
Well, I remember when a million was a million
They all have ways to make you pay
And she left in the fall, that’s her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison
And she left in the fall, that’s her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison

Songwriters: Kathleen Brennan / Thomas Alan Waits
Little Drop of Poison lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
Artist: Tom Waits
Album: The End of Violence
Released: 1997
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Other recordings of this song
A Little Drop of Poison
Jess Walker · 2012