Sins Of My Father Lyrics - Tom Waits

God said: don't give me your tin horn prayers 

Don't buy roses off the street down there 

Took it all and took the dirt road home 

Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair 

Night is falling like a bloody axe 

Lies and rumors and the wind at my back 

Hand on the wheel and gravel on the road 

Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

I'm gonna take the sins of my mother 

I'm gonna take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

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Birds cry warning from a hidden branch 

Carving out a future with a gun and an axe 

I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man 

Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand 

The world's not easy, the blind man said 

Turns on nothing but money and dread 

Dog's been scratching at the door all night 

Long neck birds flying out of the moon light 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

I'm gonna take the sins of my mother 

I'm gonna take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

Down to the pond 

Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie 

The star spangled glitter of his one good eye 

Everybody knows that the game was rigged 

Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig 

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Dark town alley's been hiding you 

Long bell tolling is your Waterloo 

Oh baby, what can you do 

Does the light of god blind you 

Or lead the way home for you? 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

Take the sins of my mother 

I'm gonna take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

Down to the pond 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

Take the sins of my mother 

And take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

Down to the pond 

God all mighty for righteousness sake 

Humiliation of our fallen state 

Written in the book of too bold Cain 

A long black overcoat will show no stain 

Feel the heat and the burn on your back 

The rip and the moan the stretch of the rack 

All my belongings in a flour sack 

Will the place I come from take me back 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

Take the sins of my mother 

And take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

Down to the pond 

They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big 

To dance upon nothing to the Tyborn Jig 

Treats you like a puppet when you're under his spell 

Oh the heart is heaven but the mind is hell 

Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds 

I's born at this time for a reason you see 

When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time 

But the wine's so pleasing and so sublime 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

Take the sins of my mother 

I'm gonna take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

Down to the pond 

Kissed my sweetheart by the China ball tree 

Everything I done is between god and me 

Only he will judge how my time was spent 

29 days of sinning and 40 to repent 

The horse is steady but the horse is blind 

wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind 

The roots grow upward and the branches grow down 

it's much too late to throw the dice again I've found 

I'm gonna take the sins of my father 

Take the sins of my mother 

Take the sins of my brother 

Down to the pond 

I'm gonna wash them 

I'm gonna wash them 

I'm gonna wash the sins of my father 

I'm gonna wash the sins of my mother 

Wash the sins of my brother 

Till the water runs clear 

Till the water runs clear 

Till the water runs clear