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Tom Waits( Thomas Alan Waits )
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Missing My Son (Remastered)
I was in a line at the supermarket the other day, and uhm... y'know, I had all my things on the little conveyor belt there. And uh... there's a gal in front of me that is uh. well, she's staring at me and I'm getting a little nervous and uh, she continues to stare at me. And I uh, I keep looking the other way. And then, finally she comes over closer to me and she says: ' I apologise for staring, that must have been annoying. I, I... You look so much like my son, who died. I just can't take my eyes off you. ' And she precedes to go into her purse and she pulls out a photograph of her son who'd died. And uh, he looks absolutely nothing like me. In fact he's... Chinese. Uh... anyway, we chatted a little bit. And uh, she says: ' I'm sorry, I have to ask you. Would you mind, as I leave the supermarket here, would you mind saying ' Goodbye mom' to me? I, I know it's a strange request but I haven't heard my son saying ' Goodbye mom' to me, and ' So long' and it would mean so much to me to hear it. And uh, if you don't mind I... ' And I said: ' Well, you know, okay, yeah, sure. Eh. uh... I can say that.' And, and so, Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com she uh gets her groceries all checked out. And uh, as she's going out the door she waves at me and she hollers across the store: ' Goodbye son!' And I look up and I wave and I say: ' Goodbye mom!' And then she goes, and uh... So I get my few things there, on the conveyor belt and the checker checks out my things. And uh, and he gives me the total and he says: ' That'll be four hundred and seventy nine dollars.' Uh... and I said: ' Well, how is that possible! I've only got a little tuna fish, and uh some skimmed milk, and uh mustard and a loaf of bread...' He goes: ' Well, well you're also paying for the groceries for your mother. She uh, told me you'd take care of the bill for her.' And I said: ' Well, wait a minute! That's not my mother!' And he says: ' Well I distinctly heard her say as she left the store ' Bye son!' and you said ' Bye mom!' and so what are you trying to say here, uh...' I said: ' Well, JESUS! ' And I looked out into the parking lot and she was just getting into her car. And I ran out there. And she was just closing the door, and she had a little bit of her leg sticking out of the door and she was pulling away and I grabbed her leg and I started PULLING it! Just the way... I'm pulling yours...
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