Don’t Go into That Barn Tom Waits

Black cellophane sky at midnight
Big blue moon with three gold rings
I called Champion to the window
And I pointed up above the trees
That's when I heard my name in a scream
Coming from the woods out there
I let my dog run off of the chain
I locked my door real good with a chair

Don't go into that barn, yeah
Don't go into that barn, yeah

Everett Lee broke loose again
It's worse than the time before
'Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine
Fermented in the muddy rain, of course
A drunken wail, a drunken train
Blew through the birdless trees
Oh, you're alone alright, you're alone alright
How did I know? How did I know?

Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah

An old black tree scratching up the sky
With bony, claw-like fingers
A rusty black rake digging up the turnips
Of a muddy cold grey sky
Shiny tooth talons coiled for grabbing a stranger happening by
And the day went home early
And the sun sank down into the muck of a deep, dead sky