Tom Waits A Nickel's Worth of Dreams song lyrics

Well, the shoeshine boy's got lines around the block

The bloodhound's let the convicts get away

And after you're asleep, all the cheerleaders weep

And the ham-and-eggers win the Irish Sweepstakes every day

The paper boys make headlines and the janitors are winking

As they're filling up their dustpans full of hundred dollar bills

The never-do-wells and stingy-pins all ride around in taxis

In the style that they have grown accustomed to

And the parking lot attendants leave the money in the drawer

And take that Corvette Stingray with a four-on-the-floor

And pull into the filling station and instead of gasoline

Say, 'Hey buddy, can you fill it with a nickel's worth of dreams?'