How's It Gonna End (Waits Tom)

He had 3 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 good bye in The dust on the hood THey found a a map of Missouri Lipstick on the glass They must of left In the middle of the nite And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? Behind a smoke colored Curtain, the girl Disappeared, the found out The ring was a fake A tree born crooked Will never grow straight She sunk like a hammer in to the lake A long lost letter and And old leaky boat Promises are never meant To keep And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How 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 it going to end? Drag your wagon and your plow Over the bones of the dead Out among 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 Sheila'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 Everyone wants to know How it going to end? THe sirens are snaking their Way up the hill It's last call somewhere in The wordl The reptiles blend in with the Color of the street Life is sweet at the edge Of a razor And down in the front row of An old picture show The old man is asleep As the credits start to roll And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end?