I had the good sense and fortune to catch this movie at the theater on 'the big screen'. I can only hope that it gets released on bluray ASAP. It get's better with each viewing.
SHORE LEAVE: My favourite Waits number. Stunning !!!!! - lyrics and music. In an industry full of phoney, this guy's the real deal, talent, genius, originality .
if Tom Waits him self can talk to me in this moment he would say "drink some more, the pain will go away, but prepare your soul, cause, pain last some time, but your soul will last forever "
@yeahimazombie If Tom Waits could talk to you now he'd tell you that you were wrong baout him. He'd tell you he's been sober for around twenty years now.
Tom Waits is one of my musical heroes. He has an amazing voice, a killer sense for evocative productions, and amazing songwriting skills. His songs are gruffly affecting or just plain scary. And I have 99% of everything he's ever done! He's got SOUL! And the music of a man struggling with his soul can't help but be beautiful. At least not to me ~ .
Love the performance, but it just doesn't have the atmosphere of the studio version -- a criticism that applies to the whole of "Big Time", great as it is.
@thedarkpresence i agree with most songs on the album but i like this one far better than the studio version, maybe its the feathers at the beginning? and i like the total different style of telephone call from istanbual for example...
@thedarkpresence I mean no disrespect (we're all fans here, after all), but you must be joking. The "Big Time" version of "Train Song" is THE version of that song
The end of this song is totally riviting, even though it's kind of painful to watch. He's hurting his voice--you can hear it losing steam in the last couple "shore leave"s. He no longer uses a falsetto, and I think it's because he damaged his voice doing stuff like this (though it lasted at least a few more years after this).
One of the best Waits songs ever, but I say that about all of them. A favourite line that my wife and I use regularly comes from this song "Squeezing all the life out of a lousy two day pass". This song is as close as humans come to teleportation.
@alittlebluehouse Nice metaphor :-) The “Big Time” versions of his songs are probably the best orchestrated among all others. That had to be, at least partially, due to the contribution from the excellent band. Not to take anything away from TW’s enormous talent.
...as usual i'm hypnotised by him....cant stop watching cant stop listening...for years now and for years to come he's my hero, singing the soundtrack of my life...
...as usual i'm hypnotised by him....cant stop watching cant stop listening...for years now and for years to come he's my hero, singing the soundtrack of my life...
About 10 years ago I was browsing through my ex's dads CDs. He had some good stuff in there.Stones,some Animals,Pirez Prado, GnR.Suddenly I find this CD from some guy called Tom Waits.
I thought to myself 'Swordfishtrombones? What the fuck...?'
So with spacecakes and redwine coursing through me, off came Jagger and on went this guy.
5 seconds later that trombone starts playing and a voice that comes from Heaven but is living in a motel in LA reaches out and grabs my balls.Been there ever since.
@jaxtabram Haha I can totally feel with you. Many friends show me their best music. And when I hear all the tons of other musicians I just think...wow they are far away from the quality and deepness of Tom Waits. Evrytime the same text in the other songs "I love him I miss him bla bla bla..." But what Tom Waits does is incredible. A real poet in my opinion.
... also i think this was recorded on the set of BIG TIME and not live with a audience so it would have been even harder to get that level of intensity in his delivery
i must have watched this a thousand times ... if you look close at tom around 02:38 theres a point he seems to go off somewhere ... after he got the verses out of the way ... from then on his hand movements and his expression ... he hardly seems aware of what hes doing with the mic stand and even when he stands up its like hes in a trance ... the whole thing is an incredible delivery anyway but from that point to the end tom actually seems to enter inside the song
@Od1n90 "can you please tell me how you can repeat 1 song in youtube for hours ?" ... make a playlist of the track and set auto-play to on and then turn all the lights off and climb inside the song
i believe Tom Waits is jesus and the messiah together, preaching us all to go into a 4 week depression of drinking in a small shed with this song playing over and over on the turntable
This is great, and even hat sounds like a poor describtion.
Tom Waits has a way of painting life with a raw stroke, melancholical but still worthwhile because the chance it might get a golden edge, makes you go on and try to make peace with the pain of living....
crnirok1 - re: your comment "What a performance" - Yeah!, I was literally at this very show when this filmed - and the whole show was AWESOME!! as he always is - Tom's a Genius!!
Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
If you could stretch his voice out into thread and made a t-shirt with it, it'd be just shreds of dirty frayed cloth soaked in Jack Daniel's laying some god-foresaken dingy alley somewhere..
But it'd be the fucking best shreds of dirty frayed cloth soaked in Jack Daniel's laying some god-foresaken dingy alley you've ever seen!!
1986:my wife and I on climbing trip to Mt Kenya in East Africa. Alone high on the peak, camped in snow, hadn't seen another person for 10 days. Was saving the batteries for headlamps, but splurged and pulled out the walkman one day. The studio version of this song was on. It took us away. I looked in her eyes, and we both felt it. The closest thing I've ever had to a mystical or out of body experience. We had to look away - can't explain it. Like nothing I've experience since. Thanks Tom!
Sorry to react so late, but I only saw this comment now. I totally agree with you.
As I am dutch and english is not my native language, I never could describe exactely what I was feeling listening to TW, but what you said comes so close, I could have said it myself...lol
what you say about catching your attention every time and getting goosebumps is so true, I can easily agree with you. thanks.......
Yeah, this is the correct forum to address Tom Waits. I spoke to him last week and he confirmed he was taking requests for performances in the comments section of this video.
Please be patient and wait for a response as he is currently facing a back-log.
Go watch "Sarah Brightman - It's a beautiful day" on youtube for a minute or two, then come back here and watch Tom mimick a certain thing she does. ha ha ha! It's funny.
I first thought about saying something like "buy the album" but I feel you, and this isn't on Big Time (the album) so my suggestion would be to download Tubetilla or something similar and transfer it to a mp3.
Woody, mate, if u fail 2 see the beauty of this remarkable artist u don't DESERVE to understand what he's saying. Tom waits 4 no man, and man, you've been left behind! maybe thats why yr a hobo. u shd read W.H. Davies 'Autobiography of a Supertramp' and learn something abt yr own roots, presuming u r aware of any...other than 'kak', a euphemism which is all yr own creation!
Woodythehobo my reply 2 yr comment got stacked on top of all the other comments instead of here where it shd be. it's a reply 2 yr criticism of Mr Waits and is aimed specifically at you. in a nice way. i got no gripe with hobos...cheers from mackie messer
i don't want to hear any other song after this...
this song is just...painting...
Zorn3Gottes 1 month ago
I'm so far away from home...
Dandelion848 1 month ago
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
and find you there
and you know I love you Baby
akablackcatwhitecat 3 months ago
COOL-EVERYTHING-ESPECIALLY THE GUITAR
louisfriendhastaste 4 months ago
PERFECT!!!
pepe4043 4 months ago
Nine people are fucking stupid.
decomposeur1 4 months ago 3
I had the good sense and fortune to catch this movie at the theater on 'the big screen'. I can only hope that it gets released on bluray ASAP. It get's better with each viewing.
mrd2u2u2sucks 5 months ago
SHORE LEAVE: My favourite Waits number. Stunning !!!!! - lyrics and music. In an industry full of phoney, this guy's the real deal, talent, genius, originality .
Lincoln7799 6 months ago 3
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ChocolateJesus101 6 months ago
if Tom Waits him self can talk to me in this moment he would say "drink some more, the pain will go away, but prepare your soul, cause, pain last some time, but your soul will last forever "
yeahimazombie 6 months ago
@yeahimazombie If Tom Waits could talk to you now he'd tell you that you were wrong baout him. He'd tell you he's been sober for around twenty years now.
soggywallet 3 months ago
@soggywallet
About 30 I believe. I've read that he quit drinking and smoking after he met his wife.
CarlSagan0101 3 months ago
Gotta Love His Sceam At The End Greatest Version Of This Song Love It. SHORE LEAVE!!!
Prplsk8tr1 6 months ago
161.765 views. Rappers and alike have minimum 3 million. It's sad.
Consolas 8 months ago
THE Best Version of this song... Deep, habited and inspiring ...
flashpanshmecker 10 months ago 20
Giavannanow 10 months ago 5
Love the performance, but it just doesn't have the atmosphere of the studio version -- a criticism that applies to the whole of "Big Time", great as it is.
thedarkpresence 10 months ago
@thedarkpresence i agree with most songs on the album but i like this one far better than the studio version, maybe its the feathers at the beginning? and i like the total different style of telephone call from istanbual for example...
nebelherz 8 months ago 2
@thedarkpresence I mean no disrespect (we're all fans here, after all), but you must be joking. The "Big Time" version of "Train Song" is THE version of that song
dkendricken 6 months ago
This performance is just mesmerizing.
fourthstick 10 months ago 2
For me Tom is up there with Beetoven, mozart etc. true genius and as good a lyricist as ANYONE out there and I'm including Dylan in that
dermotjl 11 months ago 4
Some guys should live for ever....
esferozoma1 11 months ago 3
Brilliant performance, that microphone just got F'd in the A
bustedup 11 months ago 4
533 likes,6 dislikes...there's some hope left...
just awesome :)
and it's good to see Tom lightweight lol
338Ronin 11 months ago
Wow
IndianaSmallmouth 1 year ago
Just enjoy a bit of genius FANTASTIC.
Joyland20101 1 year ago
put out with passion!!
stanleysoldman 1 year ago
sweet, and people asks why im so obsessed with music
kriztianrulez 1 year ago
The end of this song is totally riviting, even though it's kind of painful to watch. He's hurting his voice--you can hear it losing steam in the last couple "shore leave"s. He no longer uses a falsetto, and I think it's because he damaged his voice doing stuff like this (though it lasted at least a few more years after this).
kentuckuh 1 year ago
One of the best Waits songs ever, but I say that about all of them. A favourite line that my wife and I use regularly comes from this song "Squeezing all the life out of a lousy two day pass". This song is as close as humans come to teleportation.
pearlcox 1 year ago
Oh the fearless drama, the dirty beauty and the pure poetry... one of a kind.
AnnaBaaanana 1 year ago
that ron perlman is an ok singer
noamshouseparty 1 year ago
Do you know anyone else who can sing whispering?
He gives me the shivers. And the blues. And the music. <3
opredeleno 1 year ago
when he says, "and find you there"
his expression is so profoundly emotional.
he's so incredible!
kb41086 1 year ago
One word: Goosebumps!
nevillejking 1 year ago
I feel very sorry for the 6 people that disliked this.
Adam3Nobody 1 year ago 3
The saxophone in this song wraps itself around Tom's ankles like a slinky cat. This man is a genius...
alittlebluehouse 1 year ago 4
@alittlebluehouse Nice metaphor :-) The “Big Time” versions of his songs are probably the best orchestrated among all others. That had to be, at least partially, due to the contribution from the excellent band. Not to take anything away from TW’s enormous talent.
lehrent 1 year ago
Things to understand Waits: A pack of cigs, a jug of bourbon and a crazy mind.
Anyway, the best persons in the world are a lil' crazy...
ian0assis 1 year ago 4
Catharsis.
DiamondSoul 1 year ago 2
I'd hit it.
shutupandxplay 1 year ago 8
I am so very in love with Tom Waits
bbudab 1 year ago 3
Fly to the stars Tommy, you do not belong to this humble Earth.
ConstantinLion 1 year ago 2
I shot billiards with a midget
who else could get away with that?
peterpage244 1 year ago 2
Tom Waits is a weirdo. Just like me.
oOJAYDILLAOo 1 year ago
Hot damn! Sing it. SSSSSShhhhhhooooooorrrrreeeee lllleeeaaaavvvvvvvveeee
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...as usual i'm hypnotised by him....cant stop watching cant stop listening...for years now and for years to come he's my hero, singing the soundtrack of my life...
Feuerkindjana 1 year ago
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Feuerkindjana 1 year ago
now that i've seen this video, i don't see how i could have lived without it.
napoleonhansolo 1 year ago 5
Unbelieveable!
adamrenihan 1 year ago
i agree, 6 dumb asses.
yeahrightman23 1 year ago
6 people are deaf.
isaaclol 1 year ago
i wish this was on the cd!
loganob831 1 year ago
If a better love song exists I ain't heard it.
I'm so far away from home, I miss my baby so..........
chelmsfordpunk 1 year ago
I can't make it by myself, I love you so!!! PERFECTION!!!!!
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What a brilliant version of this amazing song!
Gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it...
Mr. Waits is truely one of the greats
unclevernon 1 year ago
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unclevernon 1 year ago
As Always AMAZING to say the least
Ominous09 1 year ago
thumbs up for the random work light!
lawnkhan 1 year ago 7
I think I just came.
MRBLuD 1 year ago 7
sums us all up and cuts us to the bone with a lyric.
GuildF40 1 year ago 3
About 10 years ago I was browsing through my ex's dads CDs. He had some good stuff in there.Stones,some Animals,Pirez Prado, GnR.Suddenly I find this CD from some guy called Tom Waits.
I thought to myself 'Swordfishtrombones? What the fuck...?'
So with spacecakes and redwine coursing through me, off came Jagger and on went this guy.
5 seconds later that trombone starts playing and a voice that comes from Heaven but is living in a motel in LA reaches out and grabs my balls.Been there ever since.
bluegiant69 1 year ago 63
@bluegiant69 that is sweet.
ruteparedes 6 months ago in playlist Tom Waits and Nick Cave
@bluegiant69 F*ck, now that's a moment.
Consolas 4 months ago
Ive got the record album, still plays on my turntable, its cracks and pops and booms sooooooo sweet....
Maddhater1 1 year ago
Tom Waits more or less ruined music for me.
Be warned people ...if this guy gets into your bones you'll never get him out.
I've been trying for twenty five years.
Nothing does it for me any more ...not like like this guy.
Everything fails to hit the mark once this guys got ya.
jaxtabram 1 year ago 8
@jaxtabram
I found him by accident about 7 years ago. I've been a junkie for his music ever since. I can't listen to most mainstream radio anymore.
TheJiggsCasey 1 year ago 4
@jaxtabram it's so true. i'm ruined at 22 years old. damnit all tom lol
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
@DrunkenPiano and me at 20.. :O
Damn, it's gonna be a long life! Let's just hope Tom's there for many years to come, to fill it with his wonderful music.. ^.^
peterkrag 1 year ago
@jaxtabram Haha I can totally feel with you. Many friends show me their best music. And when I hear all the tons of other musicians I just think...wow they are far away from the quality and deepness of Tom Waits. Evrytime the same text in the other songs "I love him I miss him bla bla bla..." But what Tom Waits does is incredible. A real poet in my opinion.
Od1n90 1 year ago 2
I'm pretty sad that this song was not on the Big Time CD :(
Avocalypse 1 year ago
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i so happy right now.
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
... also i think this was recorded on the set of BIG TIME and not live with a audience so it would have been even harder to get that level of intensity in his delivery
woodhd 1 year ago
@woodhd he reminds me of the shyguy with the lantern at 3:10 and i agree, he seems to be in his own little world. what a performer!
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
i must have watched this a thousand times ... if you look close at tom around 02:38 theres a point he seems to go off somewhere ... after he got the verses out of the way ... from then on his hand movements and his expression ... he hardly seems aware of what hes doing with the mic stand and even when he stands up its like hes in a trance ... the whole thing is an incredible delivery anyway but from that point to the end tom actually seems to enter inside the song
woodhd 1 year ago
sounds like there is one of those dollar store laughter boxes in the background over the coda ...
woodhd 1 year ago
On my top ten list of people i'd most like to have lunch with he's up there mate , Hell i may even pay !!
poohtubes 1 year ago
the coolest cat that ever lived
staysea36 1 year ago 3
doktorfuture: It's because there has not yet been a rating system invented that can truly convey the brilliance of Waits. ;^)
AnneNonimous 1 year ago
He`s the greatest beatnik,yeah!I love him!!!
childoftom 1 year ago
at the end of the song it sounds like he's crying out for his wife... absolutely raw and incredible
VTECheart 1 year ago
feathers and... CONFETTTTTTTI IN YOUR HAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
LandoftheShanks 1 year ago
I love tom's little thin moustache on this
katkal3 1 year ago
AWESOME. Agree too that it is even better than the studio version. The worlds greatest living artist!
TheUnstableTables 1 year ago
@TheUnstableTables DAMN STRAIGHT
katkal3 1 year ago
Where do you see Stars???
I think he wouldn t Care
MrTimobaer 1 year ago
Tom not gonna be happy, when he knows theres only 5 stars available...
CaptainPotWeed 1 year ago
Tom not gonna be happy, when he knows theres only 5 stars available...
CaptainPotWeed 1 year ago
Thar was amazing...quite better than the studio version which is already excellent
sneakyrabbits 1 year ago 3
Tom Waits is a fucking genius!!!
HelockComics 1 year ago
he has an almost creepy husky voice...love the lyrics <3
monsterspink03 1 year ago
i love it !! thanks!
625Mel 2 years ago
absolutely pure genius
emilmray 2 years ago 3
I cant help myself - I just LOVE this song...
crozdwirez 2 years ago 3
i listened to this song in Hong Kong while I was on shore leave lol.
cliquehop 2 years ago 8
Listening to this song while actually being in Hong Kong is pretty great, had a chance to do it a few years ago. Quite an experience.
DiamondSoul 2 years ago 3
seriously sexy
kakaheadpoop420 2 years ago 7
I don't know how he hits those notes but when he does... sends chills down my back.
FlowerChildanddan 2 years ago 5
I said BAY BEE
cahillgreg 2 years ago 3
kick ass performance
bent540 2 years ago
So powerful. I can't think of anyone that even comes close to Tom's stage presence.
DiamondSoul 2 years ago 3
For me!... Tom Waits is the #1 (it's hard to grade artists.. but if i was forced to pick... he gets my vote.. art, art, art!!)
So many brilliant songs in various styles.. untouchable.
zoinkz101 2 years ago
Can listen to this on repeat for hours
shadowlance194 2 years ago
can you please tell me how you can repeat 1 song in youtube for hours ? couldnt find the button
Od1n90 2 years ago
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@Od1n90 "can you please tell me how you can repeat 1 song in youtube for hours ?" ... make a playlist of the track and set auto-play to on and then turn all the lights off and climb inside the song
woodhd 1 year ago
you can get a copy of Big Time on DVD from pirates bay :D you didnt hear that from me
Mymilkheals1 2 years ago 5
i believe Tom Waits is jesus and the messiah together, preaching us all to go into a 4 week depression of drinking in a small shed with this song playing over and over on the turntable
joeygarage77 2 years ago 13
Release Big Time on DVD please!
HamburgerMartyr 2 years ago 7
Yes!
One of the best performances in a history.
It's a mistery. People are waiting all over the world.
Maybe we should form a pressure group,
maybe they don't know, maybe the film is lying somewhere on a shelf in a cellar completely forgotten...
Who's holding rights to this material anyway?
sadhustar 2 years ago 2
oh he's so hot, and his voice is so amazing I love him really I LOVE TOM WAITS
bigoghego 2 years ago 4
damn what a man....
in a different category with bowie, iggy pop.
jmInDreams 2 years ago
why can i not give this 6 stars?
doktorfuture 2 years ago 174
the same reason why cant i give you 1000 thumbs up for saying that :)
TheCreativeDot 2 years ago 118
Chaaaaaaaaaaar lieeeeeeeeeeeeeee........
Lysle123 2 years ago
Shoooooooooore leeeeeeeeeeave.......
TheJesmonde 2 years ago 5
how about the swordfish trombone.... i love this sexy man and his wicked mind
mlund3 2 years ago
wow, amazing. gave me goose bumps. So Tom , when you coming to Australia???
ambo351 2 years ago 5
GENIUS!
Magemastrtom 2 years ago 14
GENIUS!
F43R1X 2 years ago 12
" I shot billiards with a midget till the rain stopped"
one of the greatest lyrics of time
madpop17 2 years ago 17
Yes, almost as good as: "It's a tired old suitcase, to a hotel someplace, and wound that will never heal..."
Waits is the master.
beelzabubba 2 years ago 3
Shooooooore leeeeeeeeaaaaveeeeee.......
Adore him......
MaRaGenfff 2 years ago 3
Could someone put a good version of 'Franks Wild Years' on please.
blagdonboy1 2 years ago
One of the few true American heroes of all time.
JiffySpook 2 years ago 8
This guy is unbelievable
Tom Waits
Amazing
Awesome
Genius
I agree with all this comments, absolutely.
Specially with tehtapemonkey
Thank you very much for sharing.
rocsil 2 years ago 8
pure fucking amazing
shadowlance194 2 years ago 5
heartfelt
balayresulcuk 2 years ago 4
Jesus... I really got the emotion of the letter from this version. So powerful, and I totally didn't expect it. I felt the desperation.
tehtapemonkey 2 years ago 7
absolutely awesome!!!!!!!!!
what a performance
bigb934 2 years ago 3
Priceless
flips300021 2 years ago
This is great, and even hat sounds like a poor describtion.
Tom Waits has a way of painting life with a raw stroke, melancholical but still worthwhile because the chance it might get a golden edge, makes you go on and try to make peace with the pain of living....
I cannot stop listening to this song.
DirkjeA 2 years ago 3
What a performance :-o
crnirok1 2 years ago 2
crnirok1 - re: your comment "What a performance" - Yeah!, I was literally at this very show when this filmed - and the whole show was AWESOME!! as he always is - Tom's a Genius!!
sirdoug3 2 years ago
absolutley, wonderfully, immaculate
laxerguy16 2 years ago 2
lord buckley?
Ollehedkvist 2 years ago 4
Oh God!!!
potpolnaludost 2 years ago
Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
Taken from Wikipedia and absolutely spot-on lol
kara1464 2 years ago
Interesting comment, man......
flextoneibanez 3 years ago
All hail Sir Tom of Waits!
If you could stretch his voice out into thread and made a t-shirt with it, it'd be just shreds of dirty frayed cloth soaked in Jack Daniel's laying some god-foresaken dingy alley somewhere..
But it'd be the fucking best shreds of dirty frayed cloth soaked in Jack Daniel's laying some god-foresaken dingy alley you've ever seen!!
danielison07 3 years ago 7
haha well put
billydruid1 2 years ago
Great story, babbchuck
You found the right woman there!
Giff2222 3 years ago
2:47. el chupacabra
Woodythehobo 3 years ago
1986:my wife and I on climbing trip to Mt Kenya in East Africa. Alone high on the peak, camped in snow, hadn't seen another person for 10 days. Was saving the batteries for headlamps, but splurged and pulled out the walkman one day. The studio version of this song was on. It took us away. I looked in her eyes, and we both felt it. The closest thing I've ever had to a mystical or out of body experience. We had to look away - can't explain it. Like nothing I've experience since. Thanks Tom!
babbchuck 3 years ago 8
Wow.
DiamondSoul 3 years ago
2:29-2:39 - those lyrics, how he sings them, and the expression on his face... brings the goosebumps every time.
The man just catches my attention every time. I know some say he's an acquired taste, but easily acquired, surely.
Too much effort for some people to actually listen to, perhaps.
kara1464 3 years ago 3
Couldn't agree more. Well said.
Chinaboatman 3 years ago
Sorry to react so late, but I only saw this comment now. I totally agree with you.
As I am dutch and english is not my native language, I never could describe exactely what I was feeling listening to TW, but what you said comes so close, I could have said it myself...lol
what you say about catching your attention every time and getting goosebumps is so true, I can easily agree with you. thanks.......
DirkjeA 2 years ago 2
man, Tom Waits is amazing...
FatMaro 3 years ago 2
I love all the versions he has done of this song. Such a great song to inspire your imagination into the story he is telling.
arcticougar 3 years ago 3
this is just the best, first time i heard it but im hooked, just like 16 shells a few minutes ago, this guy is such a great singer and storyteller.
katkal3 3 years ago
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Tom, you have a free pass to neverland ranch. Bring your kids!
RichardSimmons4u 3 years ago
What the hell is with your user name?
MrBeeBaller 3 years ago 4
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Tom, will you perform at my inaugeration party?
osama00obama 3 years ago
Yeah, this is the correct forum to address Tom Waits. I spoke to him last week and he confirmed he was taking requests for performances in the comments section of this video.
Please be patient and wait for a response as he is currently facing a back-log.
mothsmoke 3 years ago 2
love the pillow bit. this song is just too good.
sowhatnowhere 3 years ago 5
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Anybody want to buy one of my exercise videos? Love, Richard
RichardSimmons4u 3 years ago
Now I know where I've seen him before. He was in my ballerina class!!
TammyFakerBaker 3 years ago
Go watch "Sarah Brightman - It's a beautiful day" on youtube for a minute or two, then come back here and watch Tom mimick a certain thing she does. ha ha ha! It's funny.
DavidLeeRoth2 3 years ago 3
Did you notice the Sarah Brightman influence at the beginning?
tomaswaits 3 years ago 3
Tom = Cool
joey1199 3 years ago 4
I ain't stackin nothing.
Just here to say Tom is The Man.
carry on...
chickenjojo 3 years ago 8
o shit it got stacked at the top too. oh well, u got the message...
slessorpr 3 years ago
Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
and with a big fat paycheck
strapped to my hip sack
and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
alisonc1991 3 years ago 2
where can i get that version??
i just bought "Big Time" from a homeless dude and there's no Shore leave.
by the way, the text of this song is divine. makes me wanna die
doretgar 3 years ago
Swordfishtrombones
gokachu 3 years ago
no man, not the studio ver.. this live ver. i really want it
doretgar 3 years ago
I first thought about saying something like "buy the album" but I feel you, and this isn't on Big Time (the album) so my suggestion would be to download Tubetilla or something similar and transfer it to a mp3.
this is so great I can't stop listening to it.
fivehoursaway 2 years ago
"And I wondered how the same moon
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois,
and find you there"
Farendel 3 years ago 2
That's the line. Seriously, where do you have to be, where do you have go, to write something so damn good like that?
mrluxuryyacht 3 years ago 4
Was referring to this:
"And I wondered how the same moon
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois,
and find you there"
mrluxuryyacht 3 years ago 4
kult
MikaMana 3 years ago
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lmfao my ears are bleeding. how can this be "beutiful"?!?! hes kak
Woodythehobo 3 years ago
Woody, mate, if u fail 2 see the beauty of this remarkable artist u don't DESERVE to understand what he's saying. Tom waits 4 no man, and man, you've been left behind! maybe thats why yr a hobo. u shd read W.H. Davies 'Autobiography of a Supertramp' and learn something abt yr own roots, presuming u r aware of any...other than 'kak', a euphemism which is all yr own creation!
slessorpr 3 years ago
Woodythehobo my reply 2 yr comment got stacked on top of all the other comments instead of here where it shd be. it's a reply 2 yr criticism of Mr Waits and is aimed specifically at you. in a nice way. i got no gripe with hobos...cheers from mackie messer
slessorpr 3 years ago
Legend*
clathekid 3 years ago 3
singapore sling...but if i listened to this at abt 2 am...it would successfully creep me out...lol
jazzmelamb 3 years ago