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God's Away On Business Lyrics

Artist: Tom Waits

I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby
For a buck, for a buck
If you're looking for someone
to pull you out of that ditch
You're out of luck, you're out of luck

The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
There's leak, there's a leak,
in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who ore the ones that we kept in charge
Killers, thieves, and lawyers

God's Away, God's away
God's away on Business. Business. God's Away,
God's Away God's Away on Business. Business.

Digging up the dead with
a shovel and a pick
It's a job, it's a job
Bloody moon rising with
a plague and a flood
Join the mob, join the mob
It's all over. It's all over, It's all over
There's a leak, there's a leak,
in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves, and lawyers
God's away. God's away, God's away
On Business. Business.
God's away, God's away. God's away
On Business.

Instrumental Break
Goddamn there's always such
a big temptation
To be good, To be good
There's always free cheddar in
a mousetrap, baby
It's a deal, it's a deal
God's away, God's away, God's away
On Business. Business.
I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby,
Let her ring, let her ring
God's Away, God's Away
God's Away on Business.
Business..........

Comments/Interpretations
by trinity on 6/2/2008 11:51am waits is a sick fuck
by Satan's Circus on 8/8/2008 9:31pm love it, it's perfect
by DrWho on 12/30/2008 12:24pm Damn solid lyrics.
by CBordages on 1/5/2009 10:35pm Given the reason why the economy is in the shitter, this song is not only brilliant, but prophetic. Tom Waits may be a "sick fuck," but he's a genius.
by Mountain Drew on 1/8/2009 1:17pm Never tire of this song.
by G Akerlund, Sweden on 2/11/2009 2:47am Tom Waits is no prophet, this has been said before, but it is of course correct anyway. Compare with Cohen's "the Future". God has left us here, yes. He is away on business. Creating other worlds maybe. We do not seem able to run what we've got. So why waste time on us?
by Charlie on 7/13/2009 7:07am The Music Hound Rock Album Guide described Waits' voice as sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car”. What car?

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