Thomas Alan Waits(born December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 70s as a singer in dirty bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation (poets like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs) He could not make a living from his music although he was well accepted by the critics. The people at that time didn't like his classical bar music, pre-rock and americanastyles reminiscent of musical genres of the 50s and 40s, such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville.
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Broken Bicycles Lyrics

Tom Waits

Broken bicycles,
Old busted chains,
With busted handle bars
Out in the rain.
Somebody must
Have an orphanage for
All these things that nobody
Wants any more
Septembers reminding july
Its time to be saying good-bye.
Summer is gone,
Our love will remain.
Like old broken bicycles
Out in the rain.
Broken bicycles,
Dont tell my folks;
Theres all those playing cards
Pinned to the spokes,
Laid down like skeletons
Out on the lawn.
The wheels wont turn
When the other has gone.
The seasons can turn on a dime,
Somehow I forget every time;
For all the things that youve given me
Will always stay
Broken, but Ill never throw them away