How's It Gonna End chords by
Tom Waits

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Verse 1

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He had 3 whole dollars

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A worn out car

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And a wife who was leaving for good

Verse 2

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Life's made of trouble

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Worry, pain and struggle

She wrote 'good bye' in the

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dust on the hood

Verse 3

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They found a map of Missouri

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Lipstick on the glass

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They must of left in the middle of the night

Verse 4
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And I   want to know
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the same thing
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Everyone wants to know
E E 
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How's it going to end?
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Verse 5

Behind a smoke colored curtain

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The girl disappeared

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They found out that the ring was a fake

Verse 6

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A tree born crooked

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Will never grow straight

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She sunk like a hammer into the lake

Verse 7

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A long lost letter and

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And old leaky boat

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Promises are never meant to keep

Verse 8

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An d I want to know the same thing

I want to know

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How's it going to end?

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Verse 9

The barn leaned over

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The vultures dried their wings

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The moon climbed up an empty sky

Verse 10

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The sun sank down

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Behind the tree on the hill

There's a killer and he's

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coming through the rye

Verse 11

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But maybe he's the father

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Of that lost little girl

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It's hard to tell in this light

Verse 12
Dm Dm 
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E E 
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Am Am 
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And I   want to know
the same thing
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Everyone wants to know
E E 
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How's it go ing to end?
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Verse 13

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Drag your wagon and your plow

Over the bones of the dead

Out among the roses and the

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weeds

Verse 14

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You can never go back

And the answer is no

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And wishing for it only makes it bleed

Verse 15

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Joel Tornabene

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Was broken on the wheel

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Shane and Bum Mahoney

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on the lam

Verse 16

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The grain was as gold

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As Sheila's hair

All the way from Liverpool,

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with all we could steal

Verse 17

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He was robbed of twenty dollars

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His body found stripped

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Cast into the harbor there and drowned

Verse 18

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And I want to know the same thing

We all want to know

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How's it going to end?

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Verse 19

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The sirens are snaking

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Their way up the hill

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It's last call somewhere

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in the world

Verse 20

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The reptiles blend in

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With the color of the street

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Life is sweet at the edge of a razor

Verse 21
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And down in the first row
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Of an old picture show
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The old man is asleep,
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as the credits start to roll
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And

Verse 22

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I want to know the same thing

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We all want to know

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How's it going to end?

Verse 23

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And I want to know the same thing

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We all want to know

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How's it going to end?

Verse 24

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And I just want to know the same thing

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I want to know

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