Friday Random Ten: Bonus Tom Waits lyrics edition

So this morning I got in the car and switched on the iPod, and the first thing I heard was was Tom Waits, singing "Cold Water" (from the highly excellent Mule Variations). I gotta say it felt so good that I kept playing it over and over until I got to work. When I sat down at my desk, I set it to play the damn song over and over. For several hours. Fortunately I wear the kind of headphones that you stick inside your ears, and they sort of inhibit the singing out loud impulse, so those on the other side of the cube walls were spared:

Well I woke up this morning with the cold water
With the cold water/With the cold water
Woke up this this morning with the cold water
With the cold water/With the cold

Well there's police at the station and they don't look friendly
They don't look friendly/Well they don't look friendly
Police at the station and they don't look friendly
They don't look friendly/Well they don't

Blind or crippled, sharp or dull
Well I'm reading the bible by a 40-watt bulb
What price freedom? dirt is my rug
Well I sleep like a baby with the snakes and bugs

Well the stores are open but I ain't got no money
Ain't got no money/Ain't got no money
Well the stores are open but I ain't got no money
Ain't got no money/Well I ain't

Found an old dog and he seems to like me
Seems to like me/Seems to like me
I found an old dog and he seems to like me
Seems to like me/Well he seems

Seen them fellows with the cardboard signs
Scraping up a little money to buy a bottle of wine
Pregnant women and Vietnam vets
I say beggin on the freeway bout as hard as it gets

Man I slept in the graveyard it was cool and still
Cool and still/It was cool and still
Slept in the graveyard it was cool and still
Cool and still/Man it was cool

Slept all night in a cedar grove
I was born to ramble born to rove
Some men are searching for the holy grail
But there ain't nothin sweeter than ridin the rails

I look forty-seven but I'm twenty-four,
Well they shooed me away from here the time before
Turn their backs and they lock their doors
I'm watchin tv in the window of a furniture store

Well I woke up this morning with the cold water
With the cold water/With the cold water
Woke up this this morning with the cold water
With the cold water/With the cold

So anyway I'm back from lunch now and went back to random play. I'd kind of rather keep listening to that song, but I'm not sure it's good for me. Here are the first ten songs:

1. "Humming to Myself" Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Voices)
2. "The Road" Patty Larkin (Perishable Fruit)
3. "Sins of My Father" Tom Waits (Real Gone)
4. "Mystery Dance" Elvis Costello (My Aim is True)
5. "Susie Clelland" June Tabor & The Oyster Band (Freedom & Rain)
6. "Ode to Billy Joe" Bobbie Gentry (not sure where this one came from - an Oxford American Southern Music Sampler disc, I'm guessing)
7. "Too Drunk to Remember" Carlene Carter (Musical Shapes)
8. "Coming Back to You" Leonard Cohen (Columbia Records Radio Hour)
9. "Green Green Rocky Road" Kate & Anna McGarrigle et al. (The McGarrigle Hour)
10. "Parties in the USA" Jonathan Richman (I, Jonathan)

Back to work for me, alas.