Frank's Wild Years (For Frankie Z.) Lyrics

  Tom Waits: Vocal
  Ronnie Barron: Hammond organ
  Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
 
 Well Frank settled down in the Valley
 and hung his wild years
 on a nail that he drove through
 his wife's forehead
 he sold used office furniture
 out there on San Fernando Road
 and assumed a $30,000 loan
 at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
 on a little two bedroom place
 his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
 made good bloody marys
 kept her mouth shut most of the time
 had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
 that had some kind of skin disease
 and was totally blind. They had a
 thoroughly modern kitchen
 self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
 Frank drove a little sedan
 they were so happy
 
 One night Frank was on his way home
 from work, stopped at the liquor store,
 picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
 drank 'em in the car on his way
 to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
 gas in a can, drove home, doused
 everything in the house, torched it,
 parked across the street, laughing,
 watching it burn, all Halloween
 orange and chimney red then
 Frank put on a top forty station
 got on the Hollywood Freeway
 headed north
 
 Never could stand that dog