Frank's
Wild Years - Tom Waits
Well
Frank settled down in the Valley
and
hung his wild years
on a
nail that he drove through
his
wife's forehead
he sold
used office furniture
out
there on San Fernando Road
and
assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15
1/4 % and put down payment
on a
little two bedroom place
his
wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
made
good bloody marys
kept
her mouth shut most of the time
had
a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that
had some kind of skin disease
and
was totally blind. They had a
thoroughly
modern kitchen
self-cleaning
oven (the whole bit)
Frank
drove a little sedan
they
were so happy
One night
Frank was on his way home
from
work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked
up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
drank
'em in the car on his way
to the
Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas
in a can, drove home, doused
everything
in the house, torched it,
parked
across the street, laughing,
watching
it burn, all Halloween
orange
and chimney red then
Frank
put on a top forty station
got
on the Hollywood Freeway
headed
north
Never
could stand that dog