How's It Gonna End lyrics

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 'Good bye!' in the dust on the hood

They found a map of Missouri,

Lipstick on the glass

They must've left in the middle of the night

And I want to know the same thing

Everyone wants to know

How's it goin' 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

An old leaky boat

Promises are never meant to keep

And I want to know the same thing

I wanna know

How's it goin' 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 through the rye

But maybe he's the father

Of that lost lil' girl

It's hard to tell in this light

And I want to know the same thing

Everyone wants to know

How's it goin' to end?

Drag your wagon and your plough

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

We all wanna know

How's it goin' to end?

The sirens are snaking

Their way up the hill

It's last call somewhere in the world

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,

An old man is asleep as the credit starts to roll

And I want to know the same thing

We all wanna know

How's it goin' to end?

I want to know the same thing

We all wanna know

How's it goin' to end?

And I just want to know the same thing

I wanna know

How's it goin' to end?

• Artist:Tom Waits
• Album:Real Gone (2004)