"This song plucks at the very strings that hold my sanity in place. I miss her." So close. Move the tense of the verb hold to held, and you've got genius.
tom waits it the last great song writer. only he can make such complicated songs then return to simple, beautiful songs as this. is it any wonder that he is my number one, all time favorite singer.
@thelostirishmanmik That he is. But he also never settles and has created some of the most compelling, dirty off beat noise avaiable while still writing great, entirely original songs. that are as rich as they are stripped down
I love this song and so many others, the man's a genius, evey time I put on my Wait's albums my mind, heart, and soul are taken away to a better place than this life
thanks forever
simbad1956 1 week ago
i love you, Tom Waits
qariqris 3 weeks ago
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"This song plucks at the very strings that hold my sanity in place. I miss her." So close. Move the tense of the verb hold to held, and you've got genius.
MrArtEffete 4 weeks ago
This is how love is.. how life is..
1979LilBoo 1 month ago
Many great artists were subject to making shitty music in the 80s. Tom Waits is an exception.
rickenbacker03 1 month ago
Thanks Tom always loved this one
overtones 1 month ago
His voice does magic to the soul.
bjuble 1 month ago
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Pcian75 1 month ago
This was our first dance song at our wedding <3
littlelulu1989 2 months ago 3
There are for me similarities between this great Tom Waites song and Universal Soldier by Donovan
damronormad 3 months ago
i can't listen to this song enough
dissemblernels 3 months ago
My friend died in July. I had a dream with him it while this song was playing and he was just walking around in a really thick fog,,,it was very sad!
boiledhooker 3 months ago 2
Ramez brought me here. ♥
manyaag 4 months ago
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manyaag 4 months ago
I've driven the interstate east passed East Saint Louis, Missouri, in the rain and this song wonderfully captured the poetry of that moment.
No one else sings it better than Tom Waits. Nobody.
witkola 5 months ago 5
@witkola Heidi Talbot does it beautifully.
musiclover9361 3 months ago
@musiclover9361 Yes! Thanks for the info. Beautiful!
witkola 3 months ago
tom waits it the last great song writer. only he can make such complicated songs then return to simple, beautiful songs as this. is it any wonder that he is my number one, all time favorite singer.
thelostirishmanmik 6 months ago
@thelostirishmanmik That he is. But he also never settles and has created some of the most compelling, dirty off beat noise avaiable while still writing great, entirely original songs. that are as rich as they are stripped down
molloyxx1 6 months ago
@molloyxx1 i agree. the man should be a god in music yet there are only so many of us who truly appreciate his music.
thelostirishmanmik 6 months ago
I love this song and so many others, the man's a genius, evey time I put on my Wait's albums my mind, heart, and soul are taken away to a better place than this life
bubadude12 6 months ago
I always imagine Marlene Dietrich singing Waits songs in a 1939 psychedelic cabaret.
Ingr9821 7 months ago
"And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream"
Those words resonate in my soul. I'm putting it in my Last Will and Testament that this song is to be played at my funeral.
MrUnidyne 7 months ago
speaks to me so deeply. can't help but gravitate to art
kimbroadie 7 months ago
This song plucks at the very strings that hold my sanity in place. I miss her.
Intensitalian 10 months ago 23
@Intensitalian
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q2breath 1 month ago
@Intensitalian *hug*
Maetel22 4 weeks ago
@Intensitalian
so put a candle in the window and keep your heart home until it feels it is time -again-.
TheEgiptana 1 week ago
the rain sounds like a round of applause.......
kenpoka65 10 months ago
liked your video thanks for sharing
Potamita19 1 year ago