Come On Up to the House Well, the moon is broken and the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your crying don’t do no good Come on up to the house Come down off the cross, we can use the wood You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passing through You got to come on up to the house There’s no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire Come on up to the house And you’re singing lead soprano in a junkman’s choir You got to come on up to the house Does life seem nasty, brutish and short Come on up to the house The seas are stormy and you can’t find no port Got to come on up to the house, yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passing through You got to come on up to the house, yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passing through You got to come on up to the house There’s nothing in the world that you can do You gotta come on up to the house And you been whipped by the forces that are inside you Gotta come on up to the house Well, you’re high on top of your mountain of woe Gotta come on up to the house Well, you know you should surrender, but you can’t let it go You gotta come on up to the house, yeah Gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house The world is not my home I’m just a-passing through You gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house You gotta come on up to the house Yeah yeah yeah Words and music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ©1999 Jalma Music (ASCAP)

Produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan Recorded and mixed by Oz Fritz and Jacquire King 2nd engineer: Jeff Sloan Recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, CA Tom Waits: Vocals and piano Andrew Borger: Drums Larry Taylor: Bass Joe Gore: Guitar Charlie Musselwhite: Harmonica Ralph Carney: Saxophone Nik Phelps: Baritone saxophone Track 16 on the album ‘Mule Variations’ 1999 Time: 4.36 Live versions available on these bootlegs: The Paramount Theatre, Oakland, June 9, 1999 The Paramount Theatre, Oakland, June 10, 1999 The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, June 12, 1999 The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, June 13, 1999 Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 1999 Boot title: At the Cirkus Metropol Theater, Berlin, Germany, July 18, 1999 Congress Center, The Hague, Holland, July 20, 1999 Congress Center, The Hague, Holland, July 21, 1999 Teatro Comunale, Florence, Italy, July 23, 1999 Boot title: Keep Eating The Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Canada, August 23, 1999 The Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Canada, August 24, 1999 The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, August 26, 1999 The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, August 27, 1999 The Orpheum Theatre, Boston, September 19, 1999 The Beacon Theatre, New York, September 24, 1999 Hult Center, Eugene, Oregon, August 15, 1999