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Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)

This version of Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) was released by Tom Waits in 1975.

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nighthawks at the diner
of Emma’s 49er, there’s a rendezvous
of strangers around the coffee urn tonight
all the gypsy hacks, the insomniacs
now the paper’s been read
now the waitress said

eggs and sausage and a side of toast
coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy
chile in a bowl with burgers and fries
what kind of pie?

In a graveyard charade, a late shift masquerade
2 for a quarter, dime for a dance
with Woolworth rhinestone diamond
earrings, and a sideway’s glance
and now the register rings
and now the waitress sings

the classified section offered no direction
it’s a cold caffeine in a nicotine cloud
now the touch of your fingers
lingers burning in my memory
I’ve been 86ed from your scheme
I’m in a melodramatic nocturnal scene
I’m a refugee from a disconcerted affair
as the lead pipe morning falls
and the waitress calls

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Tom Waits. Some of the lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Tom Waits and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)" means the words set to the music of Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Tom Waits. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) and the lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Tom Waits who came here looking just for the lyrics to Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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