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Tom Waits - The Beat Generation - Diamonds on My Windshield
The Beat Generation
Disc 1
01. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)
02. The Beat Generation
03. Footloose in Greenwich Village
04. Blues Montage
05. Manhattan Fable
06. Reaching Into In
07. Parker's Mood
08. Route 66 Theme
09. Diamonds on My Windshield
10. Naked Lunch (excerpt)
11. Bernie's Tune
12. Like Rumpelstiltskin
13. Oop-Pop-A-Da
14. Basic Hip
15. Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive
16. The Clown
17. The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves
Disc 2
01. The Hip Gahn
02. Twisted
03. Yip Roc Heresy
04. Ha
05. Pull My Daisy
06. October in the Railroad Earth
07. The Cool Rebellion
08. Cosmic Rays
09. Kookie's Mad Pad
10. Bebopper
11. Hunger Is From
12. No Pictures, Please
13. Like Young
14. Married Blues
15. Psychopathia Sexualis
Disc 3
01. Jack & Neal / California Here I Come
02. Readings From "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody"
03. Interview With Jack Kerouac
04. Kerouazy
05. Cool
06. But I Was Cool
07. Uncool
08. High School Drag
09. Oop-Bop Sh-Bam
10. Professor Bop
11. Beatnik's Wish
12. Like Having Fun
13. On Beatniks
14. Swinghouse
15. The Greenwich Village Poets
16. America
Well, these diamonds on my windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well, I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got a steel train in the rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the wing
And it's these late nights and this freeway flying
It always makes me sing

There's a Duster trying to change my tune
He's pulling up fast on the right
Rolling restlessly by a twenty-four hour moon
And a Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head
He's wishing he was home in a Wisconsin bed
But there's fifteen feet of snow in the east
Colder than a welldigger's ass
And it's colder than a welldigger's ass

Oceanside, it ends the ride with San Clemente coming up
Those Sunday desperados slip by and cruise with a dry back

And the orange drive-in, the neon billing
And the theatre's filling to the brim
With slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin
Metropolitan area with interchange and connections
Fly-by-nights from Riverside
And out of state plates running a little late

But the sailors jockey for the fast lane
So 101 don't miss it
There's rolling hills and concrete fields
And the broken line's on your mind
The eights go east and the fives go north
And the merging nexus back and forth
You see your sign, cross the line, signaling with a blink
And the radio's gone off the air
Gives you time to think
And you hear the rumble
As you fumble for a cigarette
And blazing through this midnight jungle
Remember someone that you met
And one more block, the engine talks
Whispers 'home at last'
It whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'

And the diamonds on my windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got me a steel train in the rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the wing
Late nights and freeway flying
Always makes me sing
It always makes me sing

Hey, look here, Jack
Okay