Listen to Eyeball Kid (Live) song with lyrics from Tom Waits

Eyeball Kid (Live)

Tom Waits25 May 2021

Eyeball Kid (Live) Lyrics

 

Well Zenora Bariella and Coriander Pyle

 

They had sixteen children in the usual style

 

They had a curio museum and they had no guile

 

All they ever wanted was a showbiz child

 

The seventh of December nineteen forty nine

They got what they'd been wishing for all of the time

He grew up in a trailer by the time he was nine

 

Rolled off to join the circus telling fortunes on the side

Hail hail the Eyeball Kid

 

Well the first time I saw him was a Saigon jail

Cost me twenty seven dollars just to go his bail

I said Your name will be in lights and that's no doubt

But you just got to have a manager that's what it's all about

 

Yeah yeah yeah

 

The people would point the people would stare

I'll always be here to protect you and to cut down on the glare

I know you can't speak I know you can't sign

 

So cry right here on the dotted line

Hail hail the Eyeball Kid

 

Well he was born without a body not even a brow

 

I made the kid a promise I made the kid a vow

 

He's not conventionally handsome he'll never be tall

He said All you got to do is book me into Carnegie Hall

 

Hoo

 

He's just a little bitty thing he's just a little guy

 

But women go crazy for the big blue eye

 

How does he dream how does he think

When he can't even speak and he can't even blink

 

I said Hail hail the Eyeball Kid

 

Hail hail Eyeball Kid

 

Hail hail Eyeball Kid

Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid

Everybody wants to see the Eyeball Kid

 

Hoo

They say How does he dream how does he think

When he can't even speak and he can't even blink

We're all lost in the wilderness we're as blind as can be

 

He come down to teach us how to really see

Hallelujah

 

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

So give it up and throw me down a couple of quid

 

Everybody wants to see the Eyeball Kid

 

Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid

 

Everybody wants to see the Eyeball Kid

 

Give it up

Give it up

 

Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid

 

Everybody will want to see the Eyeball Kid

Eyeball Kid

Eyeball Kid

 

 

Ooh Eyeball Kid

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