There's a blue eyed girl with a red bow tie
 and a string of pearls with one good eye
 in a rainy town the chimney smoke will curl
 no one likes clowns on the other side of the world

 and the children know she'll never let me go.

 there's a one legged priest that tangos with the farmers wife
 Beauty and the beast is taking her own life
 and a tear on a letter back home turns into a lake of your own
 and a crow turns into a girl on the other side of the world

 and she tastes like the sea and she's waiting for me

 in the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose
 and he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world.

 And I drink champagne from your thin blue veins

 She visits his grave wearing her mother's shawl
 should I shave or end it all.
 There's an old sailor song that the children know
 as their fingers curl around the other side of the world

 on a bone white mare lost in Kathleen's hair

 in the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose
 and he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world.

Tom Waits, 1991