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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Flower's Grave Lyrics

Tom Waits

Someday the silver moon and I
Will go to Dreamland
I will close my eyes
And wake up there in Dreamland
But tell me who will put flowers
On a flower's grave
Who will say a prayer
Will I meet a China rose there in Dreamland
Or does love lie bleeding in Dreamland
Are these days gone forever and always
If we are to die tonight
Is there moonlight up ahead
And if we are to die tonight
Another rose will bloom
For a faded rose
Will I be the one that you save
I love it when it showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave
As one rose blooms another will die
It's always been that way
I remember the showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave
If we are to die tonight
Is there moonlight up ahead
I remember the showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave