WFRL: Earth Died Screaming

Happy Birthday to Tom Waits, Mikael & Vito Corleone

Rudy's on the midway
And Jacob's in the hole
The monkey's on the ladder
The devil shovels coal
With crows as big as airplanes
The lion has three heads
And someone will eat the skin that he sheds
And the earth died screaming
The earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
Well hell doesn't want you
And heaven is full
Bring me some water
Put it in this skull
I walk between the raindrops
Wait in Bug House Square
And the army ants
They leave nothin' but the bones
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
There was thunder
There was lightning
Then the stars went out
And the moon fell from the sky
It rained mackerel
It rained trout
And the great day of wrath has come
And here's mud in your big red eye
The poker's in the fire
And the locusts take the sky
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you

Now, what I am commanding you today
is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask,
"Who will ascend into heaven to get it
and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask,
"Who will cross the sea to get it
and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

No, the word is very near you;
it is in your mouth
and in your heart
so you may obey it.

See, I set before you today
life and prosperity,
death and destruction.
For I command you today
to love the LORD your God,
to walk in his ways,
and to keep his commands, decrees and laws;
then you will live and increase,
and the LORD your God
will bless you in the land
you are entering to possess.

~ Deuteronomy 30