Tom Waits - Reeperbahn - Текст песни

Round the curve of the Parrot Bar


A broken-down old movie star


Hustling and Easterner


Bringing out the beast in her


A high dive in a swimming pool


Filled with needles and with fools


The memories are short but the tales are long


When you're in the Reeperbahn


They called her Rosie when she was a girl


For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls


When she would laugh the river would run


Said she'd become a comedian


Oh what a pity, oh what a shame


When she said come calling, nobody came


Now her bright red cheeks are painted on


And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn


Now little Hans was always strange


Wearing women's underthings


His father beat him but he wouldn't change


He ran off with a man one day


Now his lingerie is all the rage


In the black on every page


His father proudly calls his name


Down there in the Reeperbahn


Now if you've lost your inheritance


And all you've left is common sense


And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep


Or the mattress where you sleep


Behind every window, behind every door


The apple is gone but there's always the core


The seeds will sprout up right through the floor


Down there in the Reeperbahn


Down there in the Reeperbahn