Danny Davis - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues lyrics

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez And it's Easter time too And your gravity fails And negativity don't pull you through Don't put on any airs When you're down on rue morgue avenue They've got some hungry women there And men they really make a mess out of you If you see Saint Annie Tell her thanks a lot I cannot move And my fingers are all in a knot And I haven't got the strength To get up and take another shot And my best friend my doctor Won't even say what it is I've got Sweet Melinda The peasants call her the goddess of gloom She speaks good English And she invites you up into her room And you're so kind And careful not to go to her too soon And then she takes your voice And leaves you howling at the moon Up on project hill It's either fortune or fame You can take one or the other Though neither of them Are to be what they claim And if you're looking to get silly You better go back to from where you came Because the cops don't need you And man they expect the same All the authorities They just stand around and boast Hew they blackmailed the sergeant at arms Into leaving his post And picking up my brother Cail Who just arrived here from the coast Who looked so fine at first But left looking just like a ghost Well I started out on burgundy But soon hit the harder stuff Everybody said they'd stand behind me When the game got rough Oh, but the joke was on me There was noone there even to bluff I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough