If you love Tom Waits, see the movie "Down By Law." He's fantastic. Costars Roberto Benigni and John Lurie and includes scenes of pre-hurricane New Orleans.
Ah yes, it is indeed the music. I'm reading a bio on Tom, or at least trying to, the author - Patrick Humprhies - is a terrible writer. Don't bother picking it up.
I agree with stacey...I don't think she meant the music doesn't get old, but neither does Tom...I was thinking he's aging, but then I heard one of the clips here on YouTube from his 2008 concert...he's still telling great stories and his voice didn't sound as bad as I thought it would...he just doesn't age (on the inside) and he will probably put all of us in the grave. If you get a chance, watch the movie Wrist Slitters (a love story) just for Toms performance - Really funny.
Stacey: if you rent the video - I found it at BlockBuster; by accident - there is a clip in the Special features (not in the movie) called something about hypnotizing a chicken where Toms character does just thatit may be me, but it was the funniest clip Id seen of Tom.
Anyone who would sit and type lyrics which can be clearly heard on the video posting obviously is not about to offer much by way of musical analysis, and is probably best ignored.
thank you darioso5. ths song is absolutely perfect. love, loneliness, and a fantastic voice. im a dude. but i love tom. his voice and his lyrics awesome
The guy you're with has up and split, the chair next to you's free, And I hope that you don't fall in love with me. And I hope that you don't fall in love with me. Now it's closing time, the music's fading out Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout. Turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found, I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round And I think that I just fell in love with you.
Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see, I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me And I hope that I don't fall in love with you. Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere And I wonder, should I offer you a chair? Well if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it, Before the evening's gone away,
I danced with the person whom I had a crush over for this song. Once the song was over we fell in love. soon followed by our first kiss. I played the song through youtube. :)
Who covered this song? It's truly a worthy, and beautiful selection. I could swear that a country singer covered this, and perhaps a pop singer, as well. Tom is a great songwriter.
What's with all the gay stuff? I scrolled down to read some comments after searching some of my personal Tom faves, and found a bunch of poorly spelled homophobic attacks. Not even sure where that comes into play here. What gives with you people?
i know what you mean. it really irritates me so see a comment someone left accusing someone or someones music to be gay...which i don't understand why someone would make that comment without knowing the truth. so i am definitely agreeing with you. i think they should take the ability to leave comments off unless people can say something worth reading.
to Stoney386-finally someone with some sense,i also agree with your analogy of the song; the song is amazing. to all others worrying about someone elses sexuality: why do you care?- it's not your bizness, you ain't sleepn with him, JUDGE NOT LEAST THEE BE JUDGED.
Somebody, I won't mention the name, started a most virulent and highly disturbed gay bashing line here. Why, I don't know. I also don't know, or care, whether Waits is gay, bi, hetero--what else is there? I do hasten to point out that this is a clearly hetero song, for whatever that's worth.
Psychopathic, dogmatic mindsets deprive some people (and they apparently feel compelled to try to ruin it for everyone else) of beauty, in all facets.
You mean the comment wasn't just a bad-taste joke? Apart from homosexuality being self-evidently natural, if someone's kids were to get any sort of disease from a homosexual...err... aren't the kids likely to be homosexual too? And surely there aren't many people around so disturbed that they would feel that sort of mindless hatred for their own kids just because of their sexual orintation, so some gays are presumably ok. Come on, look at the name - they cannot be serious!
your all silly! this goes out to all of you! wether you be gay, straight, into animas, little kids, magazines, inanimate objects or your own hand! GET LAIED! and stop wasting you freekin time and words.
I don't understand. SmileBit299: Maybe you can clear things for me? In which numerous interviews has Tom Waits been an openly gay person? How can you even think that your kids will getting "f**ked up with some disease". I certainly respect your comment but can you maybe be a little more specific?
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Homosexuals are sinners. It isnt natural and it spreads disease. I dont want my kids getting fucked up by some disease that queers are spreading. Tom Waits is an openly gay homosexual. He has mentioned it in numerous interview. He shoves his fist up rectums and shoves his weinis in mens mouths. How you could worship this faggot it beyond me.
It's people like you and your innate fear that is the cause of the problems in this world. You can't even look at yourself honestly enough to see that you are a person full of fear and hatred that covers up your own insecurities. How can you say it isn't natural? If it wasn't natural it wouldn't happen... all that happens in this world is natural, to understand it all and appreciate the reasons why is the only way forward, the only way to be a free and open person,
and until you can release your inner fears and the hatred that comes from that you are going to remain a very repressed and naive person, and this will hold you back in life. Your own narrow mindedness will probably hurt you more than anyone else, let it all go and start to understand every person as an individual, stop putting everyone into groups such as gay, colour or creed...
have the strengh to look into each individuals eyes and be honest with them and yourself, listen to their personal story and be ready to have compassion and understanding... it will all come back on you if you don't. I am responding to SmilieBit299 btw.
I don't know if that's true or not, and don't care. Does it diminish the beauty of the song? Why don't you do you best to purge yourself of ugly homophobia. Everyone's personal life is no one's business but their own. I can't understand why you and your ilk could possibly care.
You're right, and that's called Art. Ibsen, the Scandinavian Playwright, coined the concept(most usually translated in English as) KISS----Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Of course, the geniuous/irony behind that is that the straightforward can be wonderfully complex---like this tune.
Have you noticed that there is no bridge here? No chorus. It's just verse after verse. Booze after booze---and that's the Artistic Idea. He never meets her, but he falls in love. Lovely, pathetic? Who knows?
Come on! Ibsen didn´t coine anything, he just gave dullness and simulation a new face. Ibsen is just full of shit - he is dull and so are his plays. He is a Sham.
Man, I never thought that I'd inspire that kind of response from my comment. You're entitled to your opinion, but I have to tell you, you're in the minority there. As for myself, if I were asked to pick a "serious" dramatist to read, it would be Shakespeare, hands down. But Ibsen, in my opinion, ain't too shabby, either.
I try not to. The trick, however, is to know when a little analysis is called for. Some tunes are simply elevator music, and while perhaps pleasant, don't demand any thought. This is not, in my opinion, one of those.
If you want to enchant a lady, nothing better than to confect a 300 song mini disc (hey I'm behind the times) mix for her with this as one of the tracks. Okay, it's not guaranteed, but I'm still hopeful that one day she'll get the message and reconsider her life hahaha.
I love this song....and it's a very special ringtone for a very special someone I know. His voice with all of the inflection of sorrow, yet hope. Now, who has him singing Phantom 309? No one! I've never heard anywhere else cept on an old cd I use to have. Please help me find it!
It is one of the tracks on "Nighthawks" vinyl. I used to own all his pre-85 vinyl. Sadly, they were lost in a fire. After my dog, they were my most precious possessions.
Folks: From a singer/player/writer's point of view---I would kill to have written this song. It is funky, it is sweet, it is sung by a typical TW "loser", it is melodic, it is charming, it is sweet, it is very sad----it is awesome!
Musically, it's also unique. How many of you realized that it is just verse after verse---no "bridge", no "chorus", no "middle eight".
Some did, I bet, but most didn't. Why? Because it is so fine, just the way it is.
how can we not fall in love.. i walked the sky fell from above..........i love my children my lil turtle doves...........ask me not love maybe one or two.......felt like born in wrong time.........for life more than sex ...love to share to one and all...........how can we not love one or two..........sent from above..little thing called love..........
Tom Waits for me is so hit and miss...I like the sound of this one...some of his other stuff..not so much..sorry to all your Tom Waits groupies hehe :)
no problem. however do your research. this guy is so good ,depending on your mood . ive listened to him over the last25 years{since i was 20he has so evolved compared to dylan, young ,etc!!
If I were to compile a list of the greatest songs ever written, five or six would be Tom Waits compositions. Literally. I HATE when people throw around the word "genius" to describe everyone, but if anyone's a genius it's this guy.
I've gotta go for 'Nighthawks at the Diner' - rarely has a live album ever captured atmosphere the way that did. Alone the deafening silence during 'Big Joe...'. Stunning!!
Well in his early years he went for a particular sound rather then do his own stuff. learned you can change your voice by yelling into a pillow and hasn't looked back since
i saw Tom in the early 80's in Melbourne. and he didn't play anything off Closing time or Heart of Saturday Night, my fav albums. Still great to see him.
I got lucky and was allowed to work at a concert of his he just recently did in Houston. It was amazing, and I got paid :-) He didn't play this song unfortunately, but the show was incredible nonetheless.
Dont ya know? Have we ever been there? I am there most every night,......Its hell when your old and ugly, surrounded with pretty girls that are young and,........I gotta go.
I cannot stop listening to this song. Every time I hear it, it goes deeper into my soul. It breaks my heart yet makes me feel so happy at the same time. A lot of his music does that to me. That is what I call a musical genius. Genius. Thanks, Tom. I love you.
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Simple music for simple minded people.
LOL. LONG LIVE IGNORANT SHEEP...
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fuck u nigger
livin4solos 3 years ago
love forever
grobag0807 3 years ago 2
wow. who fucking knew Tom Waits knew what i was thinking the other night at the bar.... damn
solidturd666 3 years ago
Wish there were better words to describe Tom's works. So poetic and beautifully nostalgic. Tom's indeed a legend!
terenceklee 3 years ago 4
If you love Tom Waits, see the movie "Down By Law." He's fantastic. Costars Roberto Benigni and John Lurie and includes scenes of pre-hurricane New Orleans.
sdoolin718 3 years ago
This breaks my heart
BloodOnMyFeet 3 years ago 3
I completely agree.
robnukem 3 years ago
tom waits legend!!
chocoholiclaney 3 years ago 2
Tom never gets old, never.
staceydl 3 years ago 3
daxster
alas, Tommmy does get old.
(I was a fan of young John R Cash once upon a dream) It's the music that never ages,
the song that stays forever young.
bless.
D.
darioso5 3 years ago 3
Ah yes, it is indeed the music. I'm reading a bio on Tom, or at least trying to, the author - Patrick Humprhies - is a terrible writer. Don't bother picking it up.
staceydl 3 years ago
I agree with stacey...I don't think she meant the music doesn't get old, but neither does Tom...I was thinking he's aging, but then I heard one of the clips here on YouTube from his 2008 concert...he's still telling great stories and his voice didn't sound as bad as I thought it would...he just doesn't age (on the inside) and he will probably put all of us in the grave. If you get a chance, watch the movie Wrist Slitters (a love story) just for Toms performance - Really funny.
thundrrd 3 years ago
It might be called wristcutters...not sure
thundrrd 3 years ago
Thundrrd, I will look that up for sure. Thanks for the pointer.
staceydl 3 years ago
Yeah, it's Wristcutters. I highly suggest it
Paintingsinpoem 3 years ago
Stacey: if you rent the video - I found it at BlockBuster; by accident - there is a clip in the Special features (not in the movie) called something about hypnotizing a chicken where Toms character does just thatit may be me, but it was the funniest clip Id seen of Tom.
thundrrd 3 years ago
What a great song!
Thanks for sharing David :)
5*
jessedora 3 years ago
I can listen to it 5 or 6 times in a row and not get tired of..<3<3<3
punksweetyy 3 years ago 2
Long live the rebel! The voice of a generation and the icon of a century!
jimbodiced 3 years ago 2
I think he's saying don't hesitate, go for it.
DINKYDALTON2 3 years ago
he's crazy
cbtwn 3 years ago
chimpster.
You can if you put your mind to it!
Anyone who would sit and type lyrics which can be clearly heard on the video posting obviously is not about to offer much by way of musical analysis, and is probably best ignored.
darioso5 3 years ago 2
thank you darioso5. ths song is absolutely perfect. love, loneliness, and a fantastic voice. im a dude. but i love tom. his voice and his lyrics awesome
chimpvandam 3 years ago 4
i wish i could just type lyrics and get a thumbs up. faggot
chimpvandam 3 years ago
Brings back memories...If you like songs with meaning like this check out Shy by Sonata Arctica it's an amazing song with similar lyrics
adam6661989 3 years ago
thanks for the post. i love this song.
JosephLarkdale 3 years ago 2
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rextantir 3 years ago 2
Man... Just got dumped by a beautiful girl. This song brings it all back...
rybkas 3 years ago 2
Try -Frank's wildest years- and the one with gun street girls on it!!!
tumor74 3 years ago
this is the best love song ever wrote!!!!
plyrdrguy 3 years ago
plyster,
Check -
Robert Burns 'Flow gently,Sweet Afton'
Ralph McTell - 'Dreams of You'
Eric Bogle - 'Leaving Nancy'
Bob Dylan - 'Boots of Spanish Leather'
Carly Simon- 'Nobody does it better'
Jimmy Webb - 'Galveston'
Freddy Mercury- 'Love of My Life'
Lutricia McNeal - 'The Greatest Love You'll Never Know'
darioso5 3 years ago
A very happy birthday, Tom :-)
Matten1961 3 years ago 2
happy birthday tom waits
789pequignot 3 years ago
that last one was to hurricane..
itsmarcus1 3 years ago
this is the best love song ever written and will never be surpassed
lauracsh 3 years ago
Laurster,
Get real. Check -
Robert Burns 'My Love is like a Red Red Rose'
Fureys - 'When You were Sweet Sixteen'
Eric Bogle - 'Since Nancy Died'
Bob Dylan - 'Steel Bars'
John Lennon- 'Woman'
Jimmy Webb - 'Still Within the Sound of My Voice'
Maria Solinas
Dianne Warren - Unbreak My Heart
darioso5 3 years ago
you know your stuff, my friend. :]
itsmarcus1 3 years ago
Cheers, itster.
Just some old songs heard across the years, tho.
darioso5 3 years ago
this is the greatest sadest song i've ever heard
zummom 3 years ago 4
I danced with the person whom I had a crush over for this song. Once the song was over we fell in love. soon followed by our first kiss. I played the song through youtube. :)
powerofpaper 3 years ago
Who covered this song? It's truly a worthy, and beautiful selection. I could swear that a country singer covered this, and perhaps a pop singer, as well. Tom is a great songwriter.
Teflon65 3 years ago
hootie and the blowfish did a cover of this at a couple of their concerts.
voteforflea 3 years ago
Emiliana Torrini did a cover of it. Pretty damn good too
Mashy1990 3 years ago
What's with all the gay stuff? I scrolled down to read some comments after searching some of my personal Tom faves, and found a bunch of poorly spelled homophobic attacks. Not even sure where that comes into play here. What gives with you people?
hurricanefug 3 years ago 10
i know what you mean. it really irritates me so see a comment someone left accusing someone or someones music to be gay...which i don't understand why someone would make that comment without knowing the truth. so i am definitely agreeing with you. i think they should take the ability to leave comments off unless people can say something worth reading.
itsmarcus1 3 years ago
Tom Waits is married with three kids......
Declav 3 years ago 4
Is that possible? Uuupps...
jetztgenug 3 years ago
I'm not saying if I am or not. Naa Na Na Na Naa!
tomaswaits 3 years ago
to Stoney386-finally someone with some sense,i also agree with your analogy of the song; the song is amazing. to all others worrying about someone elses sexuality: why do you care?- it's not your bizness, you ain't sleepn with him, JUDGE NOT LEAST THEE BE JUDGED.
nle31 3 years ago 3
The demo version on the early years 1 is better, but this does the trick
miestenmies 3 years ago
Can we get back to commenting on this awesome song?
It's truly heartfelt and speaks to my very soul.
To me it's about wasted opportunities.
He realises too late that he should have acted on his instincts, even if they had resulted in a rejection.
Stoney386 3 years ago 9
Somebody, I won't mention the name, started a most virulent and highly disturbed gay bashing line here. Why, I don't know. I also don't know, or care, whether Waits is gay, bi, hetero--what else is there? I do hasten to point out that this is a clearly hetero song, for whatever that's worth.
Psychopathic, dogmatic mindsets deprive some people (and they apparently feel compelled to try to ruin it for everyone else) of beauty, in all facets.
This song is lovely. Get over it psycho-boy.
mrmesq53 3 years ago 6
You mean the comment wasn't just a bad-taste joke? Apart from homosexuality being self-evidently natural, if someone's kids were to get any sort of disease from a homosexual...err... aren't the kids likely to be homosexual too? And surely there aren't many people around so disturbed that they would feel that sort of mindless hatred for their own kids just because of their sexual orintation, so some gays are presumably ok. Come on, look at the name - they cannot be serious!
kabivose 3 years ago
So Tom Waits is openly gay? I challenge anyone to find one internet interview where Tom Waits says he's a "gay homosexual".
IslandOfHumour 3 years ago
your all silly! this goes out to all of you! wether you be gay, straight, into animas, little kids, magazines, inanimate objects or your own hand! GET LAIED! and stop wasting you freekin time and words.
Bigmattd121 3 years ago
well obviously you need to do the same thing because your wasting your time on youtube commenting a tom waits song
patrickkpaul 3 years ago
wouldn't mind it. but then again if thats what I wanted this would not be the song I would use to rouse that particular sprit.
Bigmattd121 3 years ago
This is stupid. He has a wife and kids. Besides, he's singing a song, that's all.
mel58109 3 years ago 2
I don't understand. SmileBit299: Maybe you can clear things for me? In which numerous interviews has Tom Waits been an openly gay person? How can you even think that your kids will getting "f**ked up with some disease". I certainly respect your comment but can you maybe be a little more specific?
tontokurt 3 years ago
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Homosexuals are sinners. It isnt natural and it spreads disease. I dont want my kids getting fucked up by some disease that queers are spreading. Tom Waits is an openly gay homosexual. He has mentioned it in numerous interview. He shoves his fist up rectums and shoves his weinis in mens mouths. How you could worship this faggot it beyond me.
SmileBit299 3 years ago
It's people like you and your innate fear that is the cause of the problems in this world. You can't even look at yourself honestly enough to see that you are a person full of fear and hatred that covers up your own insecurities. How can you say it isn't natural? If it wasn't natural it wouldn't happen... all that happens in this world is natural, to understand it all and appreciate the reasons why is the only way forward, the only way to be a free and open person,
Antirty 3 years ago
and until you can release your inner fears and the hatred that comes from that you are going to remain a very repressed and naive person, and this will hold you back in life. Your own narrow mindedness will probably hurt you more than anyone else, let it all go and start to understand every person as an individual, stop putting everyone into groups such as gay, colour or creed...
Antirty 3 years ago
have the strengh to look into each individuals eyes and be honest with them and yourself, listen to their personal story and be ready to have compassion and understanding... it will all come back on you if you don't. I am responding to SmilieBit299 btw.
Antirty 3 years ago
BIGOT
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Tom Waits actively particiapates in the homosexual lifestyle.
SmileBit299 3 years ago
SmileBit299 actively particiapates in the misinformed bigot lifestyle.
MrECrux 3 years ago 4
I don't know if that's true or not, and don't care. Does it diminish the beauty of the song? Why don't you do you best to purge yourself of ugly homophobia. Everyone's personal life is no one's business but their own. I can't understand why you and your ilk could possibly care.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
most beautiful song I ever heard .......thank you for sharing.....
AviChick 3 years ago
quality
alpender8 3 years ago 2
Listening to this song and dying..
bildungsbuerger 3 years ago 4
Yeah. I have this song on Tom Waits The Early Years, and it's just a notch slower and more intimate. beautifully, sad.
I think every person has has a similar moment or two.
GeneLattanzi 3 years ago
this brings back grat memorys, love it
teanpaciano 3 years ago
me four!
ericrussell3 3 years ago
me three
gruppen81 3 years ago
me too
auntsal123 3 years ago
I just love this song!
Usurped 3 years ago
I can't believe Tom Waits used to sing this conventionally, I'm too used to the unclear growling.
kosmad 3 years ago 2
i love the unclear growling
TheScilencer 3 years ago
I love Toms songs, but more often than not, I prefer Tom's songs when covered by others; Natalie Merchant and Nora Jones, for example.
But this song is perfect for Tom! It's like he channeled Harry Chapin.
pacificlnd 3 years ago
to Chuck B....way up there in PA... :-) You remember dancing to Tom? Me too.... Love, V
gulfcoastbella 3 years ago
Great!
Christian
cmeiserwv 3 years ago
What a great song!
hopeforamerika 3 years ago 2
and I hope don;t falling love with you....but I have already did...
ploutarxomargi 3 years ago
I have said it once and I will say it again this song describes my dating life all too close.... :( Nevertheless a truly beautiful song for the soul.
mikeyboy1 3 years ago 3
Actually, I am not a Tom Waits
fan, but in this song, I find pathos
and something quite poignant.
petahill 3 years ago
oh my, i love this song. heard from the movie the prince and me... it is soooo great.
nytblmr 3 years ago 2
A wonderful song
0Sommerabend0 3 years ago 2
Tom will reach your heart and your soul if you let him. I always let Tom in.
JDH
coolmerc3 3 years ago 4
his voice is much less earthy here.
whitestripesguitar 3 years ago
What I find most amazing about Tom Waits is how he says so much with so few words.
brboater 3 years ago 5
You're right, and that's called Art. Ibsen, the Scandinavian Playwright, coined the concept(most usually translated in English as) KISS----Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Of course, the geniuous/irony behind that is that the straightforward can be wonderfully complex---like this tune.
Have you noticed that there is no bridge here? No chorus. It's just verse after verse. Booze after booze---and that's the Artistic Idea. He never meets her, but he falls in love. Lovely, pathetic? Who knows?
mrmesq53 3 years ago
Come on! Ibsen didn´t coine anything, he just gave dullness and simulation a new face. Ibsen is just full of shit - he is dull and so are his plays. He is a Sham.
jetong12 3 years ago
Man, I never thought that I'd inspire that kind of response from my comment. You're entitled to your opinion, but I have to tell you, you're in the minority there. As for myself, if I were asked to pick a "serious" dramatist to read, it would be Shakespeare, hands down. But Ibsen, in my opinion, ain't too shabby, either.
Anyway, the point is, this is a very fine tune.
mrmesq53 3 years ago
Over analyze much???
mikeyboy1 3 years ago
I try not to. The trick, however, is to know when a little analysis is called for. Some tunes are simply elevator music, and while perhaps pleasant, don't demand any thought. This is not, in my opinion, one of those.
mrmesq53 3 years ago
You can't overanalyze art. It's not in its nature.
SaviourX 3 years ago 2
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he sucks, and he owes me $500 bucks.... never meet your heroes.
trapaniphoto 3 years ago
tom waits is awesome.... he doesnt suck...
thisisstetzfosho 3 years ago 5
lol...
Minnii333 3 years ago 3
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lol sucker....
mikeyboy1 3 years ago
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whatever.. i'm drunk, she left, boo hoo... pay me my 500 bucks tom waits.
trapaniphoto 3 years ago
great song.......brilliant album
scrubssam 3 years ago 6
Every time Tom sings a slow ballad like this tears rush to my eyes.
The funny thing is, nothing bothers me, scares me or even makes me cry.
There is no other artist that affects me the way he does.
Maybe if saw a psychiatrist I'd get an answer but that ain't every happening.
frankie50 3 years ago 7
I know what you mean...he effects me the same
way...but I'm an old softie. This is just one
of the best..I just love him.
joanie
joanlagoy 3 years ago 2
It's as though his voice/lyrics touch the listener on their own level,making it seem that he knows the pain that you feel.
universalcitizen1970 3 years ago 2
Don't see a psychiatrist!!!! Savour the experience. A shrink would only spoil it!
moominpic 3 years ago
Stupenda.
poverobucharin 3 years ago
Mr. Waits pushs every button in ways that pull in feeings hidden places I didn't think there were. It's like discovering Hemingway at 50.
sethtoe 3 years ago 4
If you want to enchant a lady, nothing better than to confect a 300 song mini disc (hey I'm behind the times) mix for her with this as one of the tracks. Okay, it's not guaranteed, but I'm still hopeful that one day she'll get the message and reconsider her life hahaha.
What a song.
MichaelFrances 3 years ago 2
I love this song....and it's a very special ringtone for a very special someone I know. His voice with all of the inflection of sorrow, yet hope. Now, who has him singing Phantom 309? No one! I've never heard anywhere else cept on an old cd I use to have. Please help me find it!
artemisentrerie 3 years ago
It is one of the tracks on "Nighthawks" vinyl. I used to own all his pre-85 vinyl. Sadly, they were lost in a fire. After my dog, they were my most precious possessions.
jbwhite2007 3 years ago 4
i love jon bon jovi's version on ally mcbeal!!
bonjoviobsessiv 3 years ago
Folks: From a singer/player/writer's point of view---I would kill to have written this song. It is funky, it is sweet, it is sung by a typical TW "loser", it is melodic, it is charming, it is sweet, it is very sad----it is awesome!
Musically, it's also unique. How many of you realized that it is just verse after verse---no "bridge", no "chorus", no "middle eight".
Some did, I bet, but most didn't. Why? Because it is so fine, just the way it is.
mrmesq53 3 years ago 5
mrmesq53, spot on. All the best!
nitrogennarcosis 3 years ago
The song is so real to life!!! It brings out that inner feelings of love and lost!!!
Just a great song!!! Thanks for the post!!!
nakas05stang 3 years ago
anybody know whare i can find this song but sang by brian kennedy and juliet turner?
SRArepublican3 3 years ago
It's on Juliet Turner's second album. I thinl it's called "Burn the Black Suit"
moominpic 3 years ago
cant find it on Y-T so il just have to buy it.nice one!!
SRArepublican3 3 years ago
how can we not fall in love.. i walked the sky fell from above..........i love my children my lil turtle doves...........ask me not love maybe one or two.......felt like born in wrong time.........for life more than sex ...love to share to one and all...........how can we not love one or two..........sent from above..little thing called love..........
greyxwolf 3 years ago 2
Tom Waits music is genius. From 1973 til now on his 2008 European tour. Brilliant he is.
Mischa77 3 years ago 2
I love it!!!!!
joanlagoy 3 years ago 2
search the place for you lost face
gibbs26 3 years ago
love this song. ^-^
sweetdayz2come 3 years ago
This is so pretty....
joanlagoy 3 years ago
Tom Waits for me is so hit and miss...I like the sound of this one...some of his other stuff..not so much..sorry to all your Tom Waits groupies hehe :)
joecoolmccall 3 years ago
no problem. however do your research. this guy is so good ,depending on your mood . ive listened to him over the last25 years{since i was 20he has so evolved compared to dylan, young ,etc!!
eimearann 3 years ago 3
The same here - This song is great but other tunes are, well, not that exciting as this one.
MarioNess 3 years ago
Tom has a song for any mood you maybe in.. :)
justaguitardude 3 years ago 3
My all time fav. Tom Waits tune....
edweirdo 3 years ago 2
Heard a rumor he wrote this song in Mulligans Pub in Dublin. Anyone know if it's true?
damienhugh 3 years ago
Anyone that gives this less than 5 stars is deaf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nannerbj 3 years ago 4
love this song x
nuttychelle 3 years ago 5
This a great, a GREAT song, but I like the one immediately before it even better, Ol' 55.
CPSJSMSUUMUGA 3 years ago
this is possibly one of the best albums ever IMO
jimbodiced 3 years ago 7
possibly my faovouite song, beautiful waits is genius not many come close
irishboi06 3 years ago 7
Falling in love makes me blue too....
Linnsi79 3 years ago 2
I love this song!
winda20 3 years ago
so beautiful
WAAAAAAAAAAAY 3 years ago
fell in love with Tom Waits long ago, ain't gonna change that.
ak47doubletap 3 years ago 2
It´s so...beautiful..i can not find words to say more. Thanks, Tom, see u in Dublin soon.
Matten1961 3 years ago
Tom has been my drunken gutter buddy for well-nigh 30 years. Love the man's music... Thanks for including this.
terryg219 3 years ago
Perfect...
ch4r10773 3 years ago
This is one of those songs that I can listen to 5 or 6 times in a row and not get tired of.. Not many songs can do that to me!
itsaspaceship 3 years ago 3
I love Waits, but I like is later albums a lot better.
He started to get really good when he became more conceptual.
Alice is awesome, Bone Machine ... Real Gone ...
Beatiful song and album still ... !
nfoo 3 years ago
If I were to compile a list of the greatest songs ever written, five or six would be Tom Waits compositions. Literally. I HATE when people throw around the word "genius" to describe everyone, but if anyone's a genius it's this guy.
envika 3 years ago 6
Let's have the list...?
I'm pretty new to ol' Tom here
But I'm interested
McAwesome57 3 years ago
1)Jersey Girl
gstout1 3 years ago
Happily i don't hear genius that often, I guess they don't make them like they use to.
PlatonicFriend 3 years ago 6
LOVE the song
jademagri 3 years ago 2
Closing Time, best Waits album ever.
ClockwiseCat 3 years ago
I've gotta go for 'Nighthawks at the Diner' - rarely has a live album ever captured atmosphere the way that did. Alone the deafening silence during 'Big Joe...'. Stunning!!
RedBeardRover 3 years ago
i love it!!
but how come his voice isnt a gruff and original as it is in other vids? =S
xxxx
fairybugx 3 years ago
Because this was from his very first album
homgprdgn 3 years ago
Well in his early years he went for a particular sound rather then do his own stuff. learned you can change your voice by yelling into a pillow and hasn't looked back since
PlatonicFriend 3 years ago
this song makes me feel very close to my Love, that lives far away, a sweet kiss F.
BBK551 3 years ago
What a song!
Matten1961 3 years ago
brilliant TOM
aiwala 3 years ago 2
Life in melody
Leveler28 3 years ago
i just dont want this song to end ..what do you listen to after that
hanghang81 3 years ago 5
i saw Tom in the early 80's in Melbourne. and he didn't play anything off Closing time or Heart of Saturday Night, my fav albums. Still great to see him.
001085 3 years ago
first time I had my heart broken I spent a year in my Dorm room sh3tface listening to Tom-This man speaks dirrectly to the soul-
herbpay 3 years ago 10
An original...can't help falling in love with it...
bluesoulsplash 3 years ago 2
I got lucky and was allowed to work at a concert of his he just recently did in Houston. It was amazing, and I got paid :-) He didn't play this song unfortunately, but the show was incredible nonetheless.
mattallstr 3 years ago 2
love love love this song
aiwala 3 years ago
Dont ya know? Have we ever been there? I am there most every night,......Its hell when your old and ugly, surrounded with pretty girls that are young and,........I gotta go.
WaldoxBadweather 3 years ago
I love the line "These old tom cat feelings you don't understand."
andyingreece 3 years ago 2
This song is sheer brilliance. It's just the way love should be, simple and honest. Tom Waits is fricking amazing!
FloatingGrin 3 years ago 2
I cannot stop listening to this song. Every time I hear it, it goes deeper into my soul. It breaks my heart yet makes me feel so happy at the same time. A lot of his music does that to me. That is what I call a musical genius. Genius. Thanks, Tom. I love you.
eternallyj 3 years ago 8