Good Old World Lyrics - Tom Waits

(waltz) 

When I was a boy, the moon was a pearl the sun a yellow gold. 

But when I was a man, the wind blew cold the hills were upside down. 

But now that I have gone from here there's no place I'd rather be 

Than to float my chances on the tide back in the good old world. 

On october's last, I'll fly back home rolling down winding way 

And all I've got's a pocket full of flowers from my grave 

But now summer is gone I remember it best 

Back in the good old world I remember when, she held my hand 

And we walked home alone in the rain how pretty her mouth, how soft her hair 

Nothing can be the same and there's a rose upon her breast 

Where I long to lay my head and her hair was so yellow 

And the wine was so red back in the good old world. 

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