Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue

[arklesa]

What a video. Most moving song I know. Thanks so much. Made my day.

[Mrplumpynutt]

I'll take a rust nail and scratch your initials on my arm. So simple so beautiful.

Absolutely love this song.

[catherinepcs]

Why am I crying right now?

[TheAshesAreFalling]

@catherinepcs you tell me :(

[donnyakron]

"Put a churchkey in your pocket, we'll hop that freight train in the hall

we'll slide all the way down the drain, to New Orleans, in the fall..."

Pure genius.

[joeblogsism]

If you can listen to this song without a tear or, at least, goosebumps, you have no soul. Happy New Year!!

[matseman46]

this one always makes me get smoke into my eyes...Love u Tom

[CliveBarnesMusic]

HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S DECENT AND RIGHT IN THE WORLD CAN SOMEONE DISLIKE THIS........................GO PLAY WITH YOUR HAIR YOU FUCKIN' EMPTY PIECES OF SHIT

[nmcarvalho]

???



[DevinAndy]

Poor Ronnie Arnold.

[noddypocket]

where would we be without childhood

[kindline02]

ses mélodies sont toujours parfaites et émouvantes

[caccivio59]

magnifique...

[mrd2u2u2sucks]

eric dee gallery dot com tom waits portrait

[SteveDiemer77]

Beautiful song:)!

[captainkundalini1]

If Mark Twain were around today and he wanted to make Huck sing, it still wouldn't be this good.

[Jonamon]

some of the best lyrics he's ever written

[MrJohnered]

lets follow that fire truck...I think your house is burning down...

I get that old time feeling every time...crack the whiskey bottle open, throw away the cork, light a smoke...we are in it for the stretch...hop that frieght train in the hall...

[goonsackmask]

who the fuck could dislike this song?

[eisenstein000]

One of the greatest songwriters of our time.

[PaddyIrishmanAOK]

nice visuals for a perfect song.

[Captain985]

Oh Lord, I would be so happy if Tom came to Russia, to Siberia!

I love and respect him. He has a very big human heart.

Great man, great songs!

Thank you, Raindog309! Excellent video!

[MrRoteCitrone]

very good!

[pppantazis1]

A little poem for the kid we all left behind, thousands afternoons beyond...

[MrOdin285]

what can my drunken ass even contribute here? its an amazing song, drunk or sober..but its inevitable, when i drink, and i'm alone, i look up Tom Waits and it puts me where i need to be..americana at is best, from the very old stuff to the new, hes the man..Cheers to all of you get a laugh from Tom, and cheers also to those who he makes tear up..

[Cora4158]

@MrOdin285

"drunk or sober"

I know what you mean.

I know what you mean about "americana" as well.

But Tom Waits scope goes far beyond america.

[goonsackmask]

@Cora4158 im from australia and his my god

[pretorious700]

I'm sorry, I don't want to hear a cover of this song.

[animal4090]

i've got la chaire de poule each time i listen to this song !!

[dan63uk]

If I ever get something in my eye and am too much of a wimp to get it out the conventional ways, I put on this track and by the last two verses, the tears are streaming down my cheeks and the grit has gone.

Tom has a song for every mood - this is his best.

[pretorious700]

@dan63uk don't feel bad, your heart is in the right place.

[didirocksagain]

@dan63uk iam so with you !!

[99ghouls]

great work

[shoestringonline]

I lived in this kind of town...my father owned the drugstore and this song plants me on the steps of that drugstore every time I hear it...God I miss being young.

[txabibilbao]

Magia pura !!! from the master ...the genious ....ohhh

[Zekkron]

Jesus Christ. . .

[Kika2901]

Bonito vídeo y bonita canción

[shenora1116]

One of the greatest and most beautiful songs ever written. From a musical shaman that all too often overlooked. I'm not sure how, but I know if you rearrange the letters in his name, it spells GOD.

[quaecky]

great video

[jime2552]

Man, I haven't heard this in a long time....beautiful

[cearbhaill]

Slit-wristing tear-jerker. Nobody does it like Tom.

[MrByaeger]

perfection. i cry every time, and i'm a tough old fucker. great film work to a great great song.

[10003949]

@MrByaeger I too am that same tough old fucker. I too am reduced to tears-don't you marvel that this man has the gift and power to create something and move you in that way. Some time ago my better half asked me about my favourite music for my funeral (hopefully a few years away)!. I had no definitive list of 3. Revisiting this, this evening I now have one of them, not because of its arrangement but because the song transports me to childhood and happy but sometimes poignant memories.

[MrByaeger]

@10003949 "briar and the rose" would be on my list as well. and certainly a sinatra tune..

[donnellobrien]

It encourages me greatly to see how many loved this beautiful tune.

Absolute heart-grabbing:

"I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad and cut the braces off your legs

and we'll bury them tonight out in the cornfield

just put a church key in your pocket we'll hop that freight train in the hall

we'll slide all the way down the drain to New Orleans in the fall"

[TheCancio68]

just legend!

[TheBrendandoran1]

I heard this recently on a legendary Irish DJs programme (Gerry Ryan RIP), well done Gerry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great to hear a man trying to put across the love of the ould special great songs.

[MACHAWK123]

A song that is as wonderful as a wonderful thing can be, the video isn't good. View the live version that Tom did for the BBC, it's everthying as good as a good song gets..

[gibbs26]

Reminds me of being fifteen.

[tlongone]

At 24, This song embodies everything about growing up! Tom... you are golden sir!

[sacradictus]

it's definitely the overwhelming sense of youthful nostalgia he skillfully captured that get me every time. i think many of us can relate to a lot of the things he remembers. when the strings swell in toward the end, i am reduced to a puddle of mush. i guess we all need that from time to time. thx tom.

[Snezhinka9]

Tom Waits' songs are just pure, raw emotions...his voice is beautiful in its imperfection and coarseness. Beautiful music, Tom. He's one of my favourite artists.

This song, as I understood, is about home and childhood...it made me cry, so sad and full of the irreplaceability of home and irretrievability of memories...

Love from Russia :-)

[MuSiCkBuLb]

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I got a half a pack of Lucky Strikes man so come along with me....

[bshmstr308]

@MuSiCkBuLb best line in a song ever written

[ozeangruen]

@MuSiCkBuLb oh yes...!

[OmegaWeapon878]

Killer.Love Tom Waits.One of the most talented guys and still has a badass sense of humor.Keep on truckin'.

[chucky0103]

Beautiful track and a really good video to!!

[ConorPrunty1988]

One of the best songs ever written.

[pretorious700]

@ConorPrunty1988 yeah, hard to imagine a more heartfelt rumination

[rusheggie]

@ConorPrunty1988 maybe THE greatest