um dos mistérios das canções de tom waits sempre foi (e provavelmente será) para mim este: 
o serem as canções musicalmente mais simples as que sinto mais conseguidas e, de certo modo, 
as que mais me tocam e sinto como minhas

there's a crooked street in houston town

it's a well worn path i've followed down

now there's ruin in my name

i wish i never got off the train

i wished i'd listened to the words you said

don't go down to fannin street

you'll be lost and never found

you can never turn around

don't go down to fannin street

once i held you in my arms i was sure

till i took that silent step through the gilded door

but the desire to have much more all the glitter and the roar

now i know that this is where the sidewalk ends

don't go down to fannin street

you'll be lost and never found

you can never turn around

don't go down to fannin street

when i was young i thought only of getting out

i said good-bye to my street

good-bye to my house

give a man gin give a man cards

give an inch he takes a yard

and i rue the day that i stepped off this train

don't go down to fannin street

you'll be lost and never found

you can never turn around

don't go down to fannin street