Spidey’s Wild Ride Songtext
von Tom Waits

The smoke from the battle fish, the rain soaked through
The wheelman left the shore
And barns tumbled and silos flew across fifteen miles of bad road tar
And big Bull Trometer hung on to the side
And the pig dogs trembled on Spidey′s wild ride
And the pig dogs trembled on Spidey's wild ride
And big John Jizom from downtown Chizom
Flew away with old Mrs. Storm

They found Bird Lundy ′neath a keg of nails crooked as a dog's hind leg keeping warm
After twenty-nine days on hard assed bread he drilled to the big outside
And clung like a tick to his waterfront life
Mooned and clouded, blued and skied
And all the clocks blew up on Spidey's wild ride
Spidey′s wild ride, Spidey′s wild ride


And the hills stood up in a great big three
And left me whipped by the forces that were inside me
Loud as the ocean, cold as a desk
Red as the water on the river of flesh
And he was sewing up his pants while he was shoeing a mule

And he was bucking a head wind gale
The crooked ass beauty was trapped to the side
And he shook on Spidey's wild ride

And all the statue ass makers, and the uprooted trees
I shouted way up to where the rabbit digs his hole
And the wheelman, the jockeys the landlords and thee
Were bucking a head wind south
With nine lives spent, he landed on his rent
Composed with a steele head salmon in his mouth

I never did see another day outside
I′d had enough travel on Spidey's wild ride
I never did see another day outside
I′d had enough travel on Spidey's wild ride