Arid Antiford

This is a cover, inspired by the My Terrible Friend version of “Diamonds and Gold”, original song by Tom Waits, on their album Room for Ghosts.

Broken glass,
And rusty nails,
Where the wild marigolds grow.
Say goodbye to the railroads,
And gardens of green,
And everything that I know.

Chorus:
What some men do here for water;
Seen good men do horrors untold.
Seen the desert destroy good intentions,
and hollow a chest of it’s soul.

There's a hole in the ladder,
A fence we can climb.
Mad as a hatter,
You're thin as a sign.
The desert's a widow,
Hills colored cream,
Sing me a rainbow,
Steal me a dream.

My lonely neighbor,
lived all alone,
Kept warm - with but one piece of coal,
And all his fam’ly,
Taxed him to death,
'nd gathered what's left of his soul.

Chorus:
What some men do here for water;
Seen good men do horrors untold.
Seen the desert destroy good intentions,
and hollow a chest of it’s soul.

There's a hole in the ladder,
A fence we can climb.
Mad as a hatter,
You're thin as a sign.
The desert's a widow,
Her hills colored cream.
Sing me a rainbow.
Steal me a dream.