Crossroads Lyrics by Tom Waits

Crossroads Lyrics

    Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood
    In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to
    Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin; you think yo ucan take
    Them bullets or leave 'em, do you?
    Just save a few for your bad days

    Well, now, we all have those bad days when you can't shoot for shit.

    The more of them magics you use, the more bad days you have without them
    So it comes down finally to all your days being bad without the bullets
    It's magics or nothing
    Time to stop chippying around and kidding yourself,
    Kid, you're hooked, heavy as lead

    And that's where old George found himself
    Out there at the crossroads
    Molding the Devil's bullets
    Now a man figures it's his bullets, so it will
    Hit what he wants to hit
    But it don't always work that way

    You see, some bullets is special for a single aim
    A certain stag, or a certain person
    And no matter where you are, that's where the bullet will end up
    And in the moment of aiming, the gun turns into a dowser's wand
    And point where the bullet wants to go

    (George Schmid was moving in a series of convulsive spasms, like someone
    with an epileptic fit, with his face distorted and his eyes wild like a
    lassoed horse bracing his legs. But something kept pulling him on. And now
    he is picking up the skulls and making the circle.)

    I guess old George didn't rightly know what he's getting himself into
    The fit was on him and it carried him right to the crossroads

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