how's it gonna end

• tom waitsin 2004 çıkışlı real gone albümünden yaklaşan kış boyu dinlenecek şarkı
  sözleri şu şekildedir:
  
  he had three whole dollars, a worn out car
  and a wife who was leaving for good
  life's made of trouble, worry, pain and struggle
  she wrote goodbye in the dust on the hood
  they found a map of missouri, lipstick on the glass
  they must of left in the middle of the night
  
  and i want to know the same thing
  everyone wants to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  behind a smoke coloured curtain the girl disappeared
  they found out that the ring was a fake
  a tree born crooked will never grow straight
  she sunk like a hammer into the lake
  a long lost letter and a old leaky boat
  promises are never meant to keep
  
  and i want to know the same thing
  i want to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  the barn leaned over, the vultures dried their wings
  the moon climbed up an empty sky
  the sun sank down behind the tree on the hill
  there's a killer and he's coming thru the rye
  but maybe he's the father of that lost little girl
  it's hard to tell in this light
  
  and i want to know the same thing
  everyone wants to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  drag your wagon and your plough over the bones of the dead
  out amoung the roses and the weeds
  you can never go back and the answer is no
  and wishing for it only makes it bleed
  
  joel tornabene was broken on the wheel
  shane and bum mahoney on the lamb
  the grain was as gold as shelia's hair
  all the way from liverpool with all we could steal
  he was robbed of twenty dollars, his body found stripped
  cast into the harbour there and drowned
  
  and i want to know the same thing
  we all want to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  the sirens are snaking their way up the hill
  it's last call somewhere in the world
  the reptiles blend in with the colour of the street
  life is sweet at the edge of a razor
  and down in the first row of an old picture show
  the old man is asleep as the credits start to roll
  
  i want to know the same thing
  we all want to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  i want to know the same thing
  we all want to know
  how's it going to end?
  
  and i just want to know the same thing
  i want to know
  how's it going to end?
• tom waits 'in mükemmel şarkılarından biri.
• süresi boyunca (04.35) maksimum sayıda sigara tüketilebilecek tom waits çalışmalarından. yoğun bir şekilde bas seslerden örülü olan bu parça (ehh tom waits işte), karanlık ve ağır havasıyla, yağmur yağarken dinlendiğinde 'efkar' seviyesini tavana vurdurur.
• tom waitsin devamli karna calistigi parcasi.