And by tracing it twice / I fell through the ice / of Alice..."
I have to stop whatever I'm doing whenever this song comes on. Waits' imagery is haunting yet magical here. It took a while for me to really get into Waits, but I'm a true fan now. This song I think displays a high point in his song-writing abilities.
O tempo passa, a vida segue, já são 4 anos e 7 meses, e ainda assim, volta e meia eu estou por aqui, ouvindo essa música outra vez. Não sei porque faço isso, mas as vezes eu tenho vontade de sentir aquilo que eu desejei nunca mais sentir. Parece loucura...
Someone wrote, how it makes the human world huge, the rest ?about the idea of humanism in generations of reactions to music that reaches us. A nice experience, something we might all strive for in a Godless Scientific world.
We are and should continue to be free to express the positive responses we have in life, as we can never know the impact of our positive outflow on a human individual. Striving for goodness in life should be as important as not letting someone else do your thinking for you.
@Loupland Let it go on the comments page. It deters from the beauty of Tom's artistry to deny anothers' with blatant lack of insight. There are separate ways to send your malease with my expressions specifically. As it appears you desire; Most artists would walk away rather than attempt explaining words of such depth, and guttural imagery, words which most humans would respond to because of the inherent 'self-explanation' from the words themselves. Like the "you can't argue with an idiot" quip.
No! You can't just say i lack insight or insinuate that im an idiot... It shows the type of person you are and the hollowness of your words. You call: "dancing with ebb and tide just in jeans, barefeet and bracelets... and closed eyes, emotion..." Speaking for itself?! Because if i must take the sentence literally... then it's still a lame image you're painting. And i Don't call that gutteral imagery... I know you agree with me deep within. Twas a crappy poem.
It's November. The air is raw, so I have to listen to Alice. Even though, to me, this is a song about a pedophile, can't help but feel for this fucked up bastard dealt one more crappy hand. And we've all wanted someone we shouldn't have. That piece is universal. Also, it's amazing that Tom Waits can write a beatiful song with this subject matter.
What is it about this song that makes me want to sit in a window, watching the rain slide down in serpentine rivulets, smoking a clove cigarette and sipping cheap red wine? And I don't even smoke.
Hi all....I'm new to this . And I have a video on here. I need some hits! I figured I' m a bit like Tom in my writing so I hope you like it. Please comment on my vid page...Thanks!
For me it represents one of the most beautiful love songs - it is without time or space. It is just love caught in a mind and a body - sometimes he manages to live it out, but then again it is in this deep nature of this love that it will never be allowed to be lived out - hence the nostalgia, hence the understanding that there is just Alice and she lives in his soul. Alice will remain to own his soul and he is joyful that she does. She offers a type of protection against the world. My story.
it was probably the most beautiful love song i had ever heard...until i learned it was about pedophilia. louis carrolls real life love for the namesake of alice in wonderland...kinda fucked up the song for me
@GameBoyPL1991 But than in a dark and unhealthy way i guess. I can only conclude (after listening multiple times with your and revjimbean comments in mind) that it applies to a love that no one can know about. But still I think the song and the deep longing it hides are beautifull
"I can only conclude that it applies to a love that no one can know about." Hmm seems like it's a nice interpretation. This song is also very nostalgical. So imagine: man who marry one woman, but in fact, he loves other (hahaha we entering soap opera fields right now). Anyway, I will always love this song no matter what. :)
I feel I'm a sprite, dancing in Tom Wait's garden after midnight... really I'm in the sweet, sweaty, living room of my apartment, dancing with ebb and tide just in jeans, barefeet and bracelets... and closed eyes, emotion...
Tom carries a song like an emotion you weren't sure you wanted anyone to know about, and drags it lucidly but wet, down a mountain of hope... into a question mark. Leaves you there, walks off stage... I will appreciate his existence forever.
@generationbexx I love your words and for me tis exactly the same-his impact on my life and the thanks I have for every song wereso beautifully and eloquently expressed in your post. When I hear the lyrics "I must be insane to go skating on your name and by tracing it twice I fell through the ice of Alice." I truly am lost over there in a world only Tom waits could create for me to inhabit with him. Splendid stuff.
Beneath the shadow of wisdom, lies the essence of poetry. Where the old tunes of eternity ring and fill the drunkards mind with hope. Along the path of vanity and egocentricness, one can only find the treasures of solitairity. Therefore, he wonders for the rest of his life...
In Holland we call that Pseudo-Poetry... It sounds asif there is a lesson or a point. But there isnt any...
It's just a collection of fancy words and overusing words that describe emotion
@Loupland There's that kind of poetry. And then there's the other end. "Clouds. Fluffy." There's a song that I think's funny: Damn Girl - "I'm tryna find the words to describe the girl without being disrespectful." A writer pointing out in his own song that he can't think up lyrics. I would have written, "The chick has big knockers."
@Loupland Oh, I'm sorry. That song is called Sexy Bitch, not Damn Girl. I think he could have used the word "knockers" in a song called Sexy Bitch, but I'm not a lyracist.
It sounds as if you might be too invalidating an atheist, to describe how someone shares an experience as 'meaningless poetry'.
Event to relax on others' humanistic traits, efforts to reach out and express, and connect with an impossible global entity in something so beautiful as Wait's artistry.
As you and I both understand that when we die, we cease to continue our lives, making others' seem pointless is too cruel for meaning.
First of, I called it Pseudo-poetry. It means FAKE-poetry.
I read it a couple of times. Because the words seem astho they tell me something. After reading it a couple of times, i found out it didnt say anything at all.
If you're here to tell me that it actually DOES make a point. Could you please explain your words? Could you share with me the deeper thought and the poetic meaning of certain words you choose. Because im pretty certain there isnt one.
Therefore, I dont feel that its an effort to reach out or express or connect to waits artistry. I believe it was a couple of 'pseudo-poetic' sentences following up to eachother. To fool people into giving thumbs up.
But if you beg the differ, i kindly ask you to explain the poetry. Cause if you really meant to be poetic, i dont want to offend you or anything.
And now, here I am, as audience. Asking the artist, you, to clarify the words he wrote.
Now it seems that you cant explain it, because you choose to call me godless and a pessimist. As if its even relatable. Also you start to poeticly describe the situation instead of telling me the point of the first 'poem'. Also you say i make YOU seem pointless, because i criticize a poem you wrote in, probaly, 5 minutes. I never meant to give you the feeling you didnt matter in this world.
@generationbexx yes im now in your room with you .hope you dont mind ..i'll just sit in the corner ..ahhh thankyou whiskky and lime is just nice yes please on the rocks ,,,mmmm now lets just chill ..:)
My name is Alice... People always think about Alice in Wonderland when I introduce myself... But for me the name Alice can't mean anything else but Tom Waits ♥
@ripouland It's actualy the same thing. It describes the "thought to be" feelings Lewis Carrol (the writer of The adventures of Alice in Wonderland) had with the girl Alice Liddell, the underaged daughter of a collegue.
if tom waits wasn't around to croon with me in the wee and ungodly hours of the night i doubt i would be alive. no man can put the struggles of my soul into expression like him. he is blues inaudate.
Just here, this exact square of floor (well trodden) is where I come when it rains like the world will end, when all my loves are unrequited and when my wine has gone, along with my freinds. When I make promises to myself I have no intention of keeping (like never again) and I sit and drift like this.
ya'll should stop giving a fuck about what other people feel while listening to this song. it wouldn't be beautiful if it affected everyone the same way.
@StevenZB1 well i do apologize for my rather depressing comment, but with all due respect, this song is to me anything but uplifting. and i never said this wasn't beautiful, au contraire. Oh well, have fun cutting yourself and all that
@the42voice Wow bad call. Blues is about hardships in life. Jazz is about finding conformity in chaos. Jazz is each instrument doing its own thing but some how finding a common ground with the others playing. Tom Waits is in no way shape or form Jazz. I wouldn't even call this the blues. This is just a man telling a story through his piano to which I drink heavily too.
i like listening to this whilst rotting away in the corner of a forgotten classroom, stare out the window into the dark landscape of this lonesome city and it's grey skies.
@chernobylzeug I want to cut myself after reading this comment. Fuck. This music is supposed to be beautiful and uplifting. Oh well, have fun with looking out of the window in the corner and all that.
Tres anos que ela foi embora e parece que ainda sinto ela tão próxima de mim quando ouço essa música, me lembro que deixei um recado aqui a uns anos atrás, mas essa música ainda me machuca, me remete ao passado como se eu tivesse vivendo tudo outra vez, sinto até o gosto na boca daquela dor.Minha vida tem sido cigarros, doses de wisk e noites de solidão, eu me perdi e não me acho nunca mais, eu vivo esperando o meu dia chegar...
yeah i listened to this song cos its my name too, i love the song but wouldnt want to be like this alice. i read somewhere that hes singing about alice in wonderland tho, random ...
@bluefreedomtrue It does indeed refer to the famous Alice, but it's not so random. This album is actually supposedly a "soundtrack" of sorts, composed of songs Waits and his wife wrote for a stage production done in collaboration with Robert Wilson that was loosely based on the relationship between Alice Liddel (the real-life Alice from Alice in Wonderland) and Lewis Carrol who was rumored to be obsessed with Liddel.
@gigantecrunch yeah i saw all the alice liddel videos that were recomended with this song, and that makes more sense. i just pictured that disney alice in wonderland which doesnt really fit this song ...
I'm in love with this song, I know it's not about Autumn, but still it reminds me of it, can't exactly point out why. A bit melancholic, I guess, in a nice way. Thank you, Tom Waits, for singing this song.
Piękne. Przypomina mi się "Ruby's Arms" z płyty "Heartattack and Vine" (1980) i w ogóle klimaty "świętej trójcy" płyt Waitsa z lat 80-tych, które najbardziej lubię i do których mam ogromny sentyment ("Swordfishtrombones", "Rain Dogs", "Franks's Wild Years"). Fortepian, bas, delikatna perkusja, liryczny saksofon i stłumiona trąbka - miodzio!
@rsclutch1990 Well, that is all a matter of opinion. Personally, it's not my favorite either...but to say that it's not the best, is only your opinion. It could be someone else's favorite.
I fuckin' love this album. Poor Edward was the first Waits I ever heard, this song the second. Reeperbahn, Watch Her Disappear, Fawn, and Fish and Bird are still favorites of mine.
I fuckin' love this album. Poor Edward was the first Waits I ever heard, this song the second. Reeperbahn, Watch Her Disappear, Fawn, and Fish and Bird are still favorites of mine.
im a real big fan of tom waits but this whole album i think is shit....maybe i just don't "get it" but some of the tracks sound like straight up noise...
how have i NEVER heard of this man before? i mean, yeah, i was born in 1990 but still...shame on the people i know for never mentioning this incredible music to me!
@hellspark i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee him! i happened to find out about him because of a family death! we made a mix CD dedicated to my uncle when he passed away and this was on it!!
17 people don't believe that Lewis Carrol was a pedophile...
Pauldurushia 2 days ago
17 users don't want to admit their feelings...
cinknuga 1 week ago 3
One of the first Waits songs I've ever heard. Nothing has been the same since, and I'm glad.
FreeTinfoilHat 2 weeks ago
16 dislikes, i refuse to believe it.. must be a mirage..
LupusDormiens 3 weeks ago
And by tracing it twice / I fell through the ice / of Alice..."
I have to stop whatever I'm doing whenever this song comes on. Waits' imagery is haunting yet magical here. It took a while for me to really get into Waits, but I'm a true fan now. This song I think displays a high point in his song-writing abilities.
TheSunGlassesThing 3 weeks ago 5
O tempo passa, a vida segue, já são 4 anos e 7 meses, e ainda assim, volta e meia eu estou por aqui, ouvindo essa música outra vez. Não sei porque faço isso, mas as vezes eu tenho vontade de sentir aquilo que eu desejei nunca mais sentir. Parece loucura...
MarcioRenatoAVR 1 month ago
Shut up and enjoy the sentiment that man puts into his songs.
There are blogs for your quarrels.
JazzAnnon 1 month ago
The girl I'm in love with is called Alice: "All I can think of is Alice", "there's only Alice.."
you can"t believe how much I do agree with you.
Outskirtssongs 1 month ago
The feeling tom waits give is more than enough..
JazzAnnon 1 month ago
Someone wrote, how it makes the human world huge, the rest ?about the idea of humanism in generations of reactions to music that reaches us. A nice experience, something we might all strive for in a Godless Scientific world.
We are and should continue to be free to express the positive responses we have in life, as we can never know the impact of our positive outflow on a human individual. Striving for goodness in life should be as important as not letting someone else do your thinking for you.
generationbexx 1 month ago
@generationbexx
You see, This is a comment with contents. Very wise words indeed.
But if you say that im wrong, and that collection of fancy words at the top truly has a meaning, i ask you to clearify it.
like this sentence: "dancing with ebb and tide just in jeans, barefeet and bracelets... and closed eyes, emotion..."
An artist is glad to explain the meaning of his words. Because he wrote it with an intention. An intention he likes to get across to his audience.
Loupland 1 month ago
@Loupland Let it go on the comments page. It deters from the beauty of Tom's artistry to deny anothers' with blatant lack of insight. There are separate ways to send your malease with my expressions specifically. As it appears you desire; Most artists would walk away rather than attempt explaining words of such depth, and guttural imagery, words which most humans would respond to because of the inherent 'self-explanation' from the words themselves. Like the "you can't argue with an idiot" quip.
generationbexx 3 days ago
@generationbexx
No! You can't just say i lack insight or insinuate that im an idiot... It shows the type of person you are and the hollowness of your words. You call: "dancing with ebb and tide just in jeans, barefeet and bracelets... and closed eyes, emotion..." Speaking for itself?! Because if i must take the sentence literally... then it's still a lame image you're painting. And i Don't call that gutteral imagery... I know you agree with me deep within. Twas a crappy poem.
Loupland 3 days ago
@GENERATIONBEXX . ooh!
mistergonsalves 1 month ago
why is tom waits in my room sitting next to me...
Beautifulzerbia 1 month ago
IMHO, the sax makes this song what it is. Love everything about it, but without the sax, it wouldn't be as amazing
SEZR183 2 months ago
4chan brought me here
PedoBearPedoBear 2 months ago
@PedoBearPedoBear wtf?
Tedminat0r 2 months ago
did not likes
itookurpoptart 2 months ago
Goooooooooosebumps!
Loupland 2 months ago
I don't always listen to Tom Waits, but when I do . . . wait, nevermind. I always listen to Tom Waits.
overman926 2 months ago
@thSubliminalCriminal
I bet Tom does, too.
TheZombieLibrarian 3 months ago
It's November. The air is raw, so I have to listen to Alice. Even though, to me, this is a song about a pedophile, can't help but feel for this fucked up bastard dealt one more crappy hand. And we've all wanted someone we shouldn't have. That piece is universal. Also, it's amazing that Tom Waits can write a beatiful song with this subject matter.
brelfan 3 months ago
love it from france
spassmmee 3 months ago
Tom Waits isn't my favorite artist, but when he gets it right, damn does he get it right
RyanHL 3 months ago 4
oh god the pretentious comments! the horror of it all!
jimmymanager 3 months ago 2
The saxophone solo breaks my heart everytime.
1mikescelly 3 months ago 2
Every Tom Waits track I ever heard, I like!
thSubliminalCriminal 3 months ago
WoWo, This is beutifull <3
TomashNash 3 months ago
Write me some lyrics better than Tom Waits, I double dare you
ToliveAnimations 3 months ago 4
What is it about this song that makes me want to sit in a window, watching the rain slide down in serpentine rivulets, smoking a clove cigarette and sipping cheap red wine? And I don't even smoke.
TheZombieLibrarian 3 months ago
@TheZombieLibrarian
I love cheap red wine.
thSubliminalCriminal 3 months ago
Surprises me every time, to notice the fish on the album cover. Took me at least 6 months before I first saw it.
CosmoTF 4 months ago
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Hi all....I'm new to this . And I have a video on here. I need some hits! I figured I' m a bit like Tom in my writing so I hope you like it. Please comment on my vid page...Thanks!
RomeoAloneo 4 months ago
tom waits is mr wwaxo
korneliuss666 4 months ago
Gotta love this song....reminds me of special someone once in my life. And yes, my name is Alice :)
Sirennia 4 months ago
am i the only one who wants to finish a jack now ?
14DarkhaN14 4 months ago 3
HUMANWINE's cover of this is so amazing
iamtheolaf 5 months ago
@rabbozji ikr!?
jdepic71 5 months ago
@rabbozji lucky you. :)
mrsbookthief 5 months ago
Le meilleur album de Tom Waits, selon moi.
66philondor 6 months ago
For me it represents one of the most beautiful love songs - it is without time or space. It is just love caught in a mind and a body - sometimes he manages to live it out, but then again it is in this deep nature of this love that it will never be allowed to be lived out - hence the nostalgia, hence the understanding that there is just Alice and she lives in his soul. Alice will remain to own his soul and he is joyful that she does. She offers a type of protection against the world. My story.
kashlook 6 months ago 9
I'm from Argentina and I really like drink listening Tom
ALANPORCEL 6 months ago 2
This song is so achingly beautiful that I almost can't stand it.
TooCoolForYourMom 7 months ago 10
♥ ...
ImaginarySunsets 7 months ago
it was probably the most beautiful love song i had ever heard...until i learned it was about pedophilia. louis carrolls real life love for the namesake of alice in wonderland...kinda fucked up the song for me
revjimbeam 7 months ago in playlist tom waits
@revjimbeam Yeah, you're right, but you can also apply this song to someone that you're mad about.
GameBoyPL1991 7 months ago
@GameBoyPL1991 But than in a dark and unhealthy way i guess. I can only conclude (after listening multiple times with your and revjimbean comments in mind) that it applies to a love that no one can know about. But still I think the song and the deep longing it hides are beautifull
rsoomer 6 months ago
@rsoomer
"I can only conclude that it applies to a love that no one can know about." Hmm seems like it's a nice interpretation. This song is also very nostalgical. So imagine: man who marry one woman, but in fact, he loves other (hahaha we entering soap opera fields right now). Anyway, I will always love this song no matter what. :)
GameBoyPL1991 6 months ago
awwweessoooome...
zardozmania 8 months ago
I feel I'm a sprite, dancing in Tom Wait's garden after midnight... really I'm in the sweet, sweaty, living room of my apartment, dancing with ebb and tide just in jeans, barefeet and bracelets... and closed eyes, emotion...
Tom carries a song like an emotion you weren't sure you wanted anyone to know about, and drags it lucidly but wet, down a mountain of hope... into a question mark. Leaves you there, walks off stage... I will appreciate his existence forever.
generationbexx 8 months ago 107
@generationbexx Nicely put!
terr0rkitten 8 months ago 13
@generationbexx really beautifull words.... with tom,plus your words... you fuckin' made me cry... ;')
this lil' things makes the human world huge...and bring hope to the frustrated hearts... thanks.
(sory 4 my awfull english... I'm happy there's this internacional language called emotion ;)
LolaMortimer 7 months ago
@generationbexx I love your words and for me tis exactly the same-his impact on my life and the thanks I have for every song wereso beautifully and eloquently expressed in your post. When I hear the lyrics "I must be insane to go skating on your name and by tracing it twice I fell through the ice of Alice." I truly am lost over there in a world only Tom waits could create for me to inhabit with him. Splendid stuff.
cattycakes64 3 months ago
@generationbexx
I can do that too:
Beneath the shadow of wisdom, lies the essence of poetry. Where the old tunes of eternity ring and fill the drunkards mind with hope. Along the path of vanity and egocentricness, one can only find the treasures of solitairity. Therefore, he wonders for the rest of his life...
In Holland we call that Pseudo-Poetry... It sounds asif there is a lesson or a point. But there isnt any...
It's just a collection of fancy words and overusing words that describe emotion
Loupland 2 months ago 6
@Loupland There's that kind of poetry. And then there's the other end. "Clouds. Fluffy." There's a song that I think's funny: Damn Girl - "I'm tryna find the words to describe the girl without being disrespectful." A writer pointing out in his own song that he can't think up lyrics. I would have written, "The chick has big knockers."
brelfan 2 months ago
@Loupland Oh, I'm sorry. That song is called Sexy Bitch, not Damn Girl. I think he could have used the word "knockers" in a song called Sexy Bitch, but I'm not a lyracist.
brelfan 2 months ago
@Loupland
after considerate thought:
It sounds as if you might be too invalidating an atheist, to describe how someone shares an experience as 'meaningless poetry'.
Event to relax on others' humanistic traits, efforts to reach out and express, and connect with an impossible global entity in something so beautiful as Wait's artistry.
As you and I both understand that when we die, we cease to continue our lives, making others' seem pointless is too cruel for meaning.
*!@ Dutch pessimists.
generationbexx 1 month ago
@generationbexx
First of, I called it Pseudo-poetry. It means FAKE-poetry.
I read it a couple of times. Because the words seem astho they tell me something. After reading it a couple of times, i found out it didnt say anything at all.
If you're here to tell me that it actually DOES make a point. Could you please explain your words? Could you share with me the deeper thought and the poetic meaning of certain words you choose. Because im pretty certain there isnt one.
Loupland 1 month ago
@generationbexx
Therefore, I dont feel that its an effort to reach out or express or connect to waits artistry. I believe it was a couple of 'pseudo-poetic' sentences following up to eachother. To fool people into giving thumbs up.
But if you beg the differ, i kindly ask you to explain the poetry. Cause if you really meant to be poetic, i dont want to offend you or anything.
Loupland 1 month ago
@generationbexx
And now, here I am, as audience. Asking the artist, you, to clarify the words he wrote.
Now it seems that you cant explain it, because you choose to call me godless and a pessimist. As if its even relatable. Also you start to poeticly describe the situation instead of telling me the point of the first 'poem'. Also you say i make YOU seem pointless, because i criticize a poem you wrote in, probaly, 5 minutes. I never meant to give you the feeling you didnt matter in this world.
Loupland 1 month ago
@generationbexx yes im now in your room with you .hope you dont mind ..i'll just sit in the corner ..ahhh thankyou whiskky and lime is just nice yes please on the rocks ,,,mmmm now lets just chill ..:)
TheBobbeedee 2 months ago
@generationbexx nice visual and lyrics generationbexx thank you .
martinbeckthefirst 1 month ago
@generationbexx you paint with a friendly flower....
bwidowerob 1 month ago
damawynarebeli efeqti aqvs am simegras ... :X chemze magrad moqmedebs ... <3
giorgashvili1 8 months ago
"and so a secret kiss, brings madness with the bliss"
fridun007 8 months ago 5
how can some not like this!!?? i love love looove this song!
billyjane22 8 months ago
"and by tracing it twice, i fell through the ice of Alice." Genius.
joshthepure 8 months ago
I could listen to this song over and over again.
In fact, I'm going to.
LauraSaurusWalrus 8 months ago 7
My name is Alice... People always think about Alice in Wonderland when I introduce myself... But for me the name Alice can't mean anything else but Tom Waits ♥
ripouland 8 months ago 4
@ripouland It's actualy the same thing. It describes the "thought to be" feelings Lewis Carrol (the writer of The adventures of Alice in Wonderland) had with the girl Alice Liddell, the underaged daughter of a collegue.
rsoomer 6 months ago
Creepy!
MySerpentine 8 months ago
Dumpert !
DSnakeProduction 9 months ago 11
No one evokes a 'mood' like Tom Waits...this is awesome..
zardozmania 9 months ago
This invokes great emotion.
yeahsee33 9 months ago 3
beautiful
Ayp3ros 9 months ago
This song is almost too sad and beautiful to bear.
Elbowdude 9 months ago 7
this is beautiful, i love you alice!
6065vsf 10 months ago
if tom waits wasn't around to croon with me in the wee and ungodly hours of the night i doubt i would be alive. no man can put the struggles of my soul into expression like him. he is blues inaudate.
MadTomOfBedlam 10 months ago 4
I amsadinastrangeerlandyeeti haveettearsss
tragiccoffee 10 months ago
What a fucking genius.
FunnyCowboyDance 10 months ago 3
soon im goin to work with one of his old photographers, lookin so forward to hearin some firsthand working stories.
tom waits is the best there is out there.
akpresse 10 months ago
@akpresse Keep us informed.
LadyeXo 10 months ago
A video response to "who the fuck is alice!
anhelo911 10 months ago
I like the way Mr. Waits' songs engender thoughtful responses (mostly). It's a great tribute to the quality of his muse.
pretorious700 10 months ago
WHO THE FUCK IS DIANNA AGRON
FrederikMeyer 10 months ago 10
Tom Waits is a lyrical genius -
someone who can create soundscapes
not only in his music,
but also in his lyrics.
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 ~
.
Giavannanow 11 months ago 6
Just here, this exact square of floor (well trodden) is where I come when it rains like the world will end, when all my loves are unrequited and when my wine has gone, along with my freinds. When I make promises to myself I have no intention of keeping (like never again) and I sit and drift like this.
stickyjam1 11 months ago
I must be insane to go skating on your name and by tracing it twICE I fell through the ICE of Al-ICE.
A poet, a story teller, an inventor, a musician, a genius, a magician. That's Tom Waits
riadhk 11 months ago 5
It makes me grin to imagine Mr. Waits' response to anyone who would spend time arguing about his music. Music unites, if you let it.
suchstrangecandy 11 months ago
Sandman Slim
kodykab 11 months ago
ya'll should stop giving a fuck about what other people feel while listening to this song. it wouldn't be beautiful if it affected everyone the same way.
xcrimex 11 months ago 2
@StevenZB1 well i do apologize for my rather depressing comment, but with all due respect, this song is to me anything but uplifting. and i never said this wasn't beautiful, au contraire. Oh well, have fun cutting yourself and all that
chernobylzeug 11 months ago
tell me is this the blues or jazz? please educate
TheMheadCondition 11 months ago
@TheMheadCondition first. Good question. Jazz is the answer to your question.
There is a school of thought which states Blues is a form of Jazz . . .I don't feel that does justice to The Blues.
This is a jazz format (if there really is such a thing)
the42voice 11 months ago 2
@the42voice Wow bad call. Blues is about hardships in life. Jazz is about finding conformity in chaos. Jazz is each instrument doing its own thing but some how finding a common ground with the others playing. Tom Waits is in no way shape or form Jazz. I wouldn't even call this the blues. This is just a man telling a story through his piano to which I drink heavily too.
somethingnewcxb 11 months ago 3
@somethingnewcxb I agree that Tom Waits is an artists' artist
the42voice 11 months ago
@somethingnewcxb It's still jazz though
stickyjam1 11 months ago
@somethingnewcxb labels make people happy. they can leave the thoughts behind and move on to further alphabetizing
pretorious700 10 months ago
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@alittlelamb sent me here. Thanks, Dianna! BTW, love Tom Waits' Don't Make me Fall In Love With You , as well.
Mysweetings 11 months ago
@alittlelamb sent me here. Thanks, Dianna! BTW, love Tom Waits' Don't Make Fall In Love With You , as well.
Mysweetings 11 months ago
i like listening to this whilst rotting away in the corner of a forgotten classroom, stare out the window into the dark landscape of this lonesome city and it's grey skies.
so i thank god for tom waits
chernobylzeug 11 months ago 2
@chernobylzeug I want to cut myself after reading this comment. Fuck. This music is supposed to be beautiful and uplifting. Oh well, have fun with looking out of the window in the corner and all that.
StevenZB1 11 months ago
@StevenZB1 how is it supposed to be uplifting? its supposed to be beautiful yes, but its also dark and foreboding and sad and sultry.
yohanlohan1 11 months ago
@chernobylzeug
"God's away on business" : )
cascasoldier 11 months ago
How beautiful can this be ??
primitzisgate7 11 months ago
make that 9 people dead inside lol
blackopsninja88 11 months ago
my name is Alice.
UnderwaterDilemma 11 months ago 2
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romansch6 11 months ago
dianna agron has amazing taste
renatastarzforeve21 1 year ago 58
@renatastarzforeve21 What do you mean by this?
misterpeterface 9 months ago
@renatastarzforeve21 how is she connected?
floyded2 7 months ago
@floyded2 she had this playlist and this song was on it
renatastarzforeve21 7 months ago
@floyded2 this is the last song on the playlist she made for celebrityplaylists .
maltura 6 months ago in playlist Dianna Agron
@renatastarzforeve21 She does, doesn't she? I'm so grateful for it too, she gave me all this new awesome music I wouldn't have found otherwise.
gldnkltz101 5 months ago in playlist Dianna Agron
Maybe the best damn Tom Waits song ever!
ronin6290 1 year ago 2
tom in wonderland. beautiful.
shapirapiano 1 year ago
Tres anos que ela foi embora e parece que ainda sinto ela tão próxima de mim quando ouço essa música, me lembro que deixei um recado aqui a uns anos atrás, mas essa música ainda me machuca, me remete ao passado como se eu tivesse vivendo tudo outra vez, sinto até o gosto na boca daquela dor.Minha vida tem sido cigarros, doses de wisk e noites de solidão, eu me perdi e não me acho nunca mais, eu vivo esperando o meu dia chegar...
79524021 1 year ago
yeah i listened to this song cos its my name too, i love the song but wouldnt want to be like this alice. i read somewhere that hes singing about alice in wonderland tho, random ...
bluefreedomtrue 1 year ago
@bluefreedomtrue It does indeed refer to the famous Alice, but it's not so random. This album is actually supposedly a "soundtrack" of sorts, composed of songs Waits and his wife wrote for a stage production done in collaboration with Robert Wilson that was loosely based on the relationship between Alice Liddel (the real-life Alice from Alice in Wonderland) and Lewis Carrol who was rumored to be obsessed with Liddel.
gigantecrunch 1 year ago
@gigantecrunch yeah i saw all the alice liddel videos that were recomended with this song, and that makes more sense. i just pictured that disney alice in wonderland which doesnt really fit this song ...
bluefreedomtrue 1 year ago
this is pretty fuckin' neato!
Lawlzy72 1 year ago
I listened to this because my name is Alice lol. I'm now in love with his voice!
xxalice1000xx 1 year ago 2
Замечательно!!!!
Zuker77 1 year ago
his voice makes me want to cough, not saying that it's bad
prowdigy 1 year ago 3
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bergista 1 year ago
something magical always brings me back to this song.
jaelh75 1 year ago
I dig this song on a personal level b/c Alice is a family name.
stellarmofo 1 year ago
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
jalgjalg 1 year ago 2
I'm in love with this song, I know it's not about Autumn, but still it reminds me of it, can't exactly point out why. A bit melancholic, I guess, in a nice way. Thank you, Tom Waits, for singing this song.
Fly666 1 year ago
Piękne. Przypomina mi się "Ruby's Arms" z płyty "Heartattack and Vine" (1980) i w ogóle klimaty "świętej trójcy" płyt Waitsa z lat 80-tych, które najbardziej lubię i do których mam ogromny sentyment ("Swordfishtrombones", "Rain Dogs", "Franks's Wild Years"). Fortepian, bas, delikatna perkusja, liryczny saksofon i stłumiona trąbka - miodzio!
misiurnik 1 year ago
Wooooow... this song is brilliant!!!!!!!!!
Darklunacy67 1 year ago
Thanks Tom...
davelafleche 1 year ago
Most wonderful my Awesomeness! Thx for posting!
Vulnavia69 1 year ago
Yeah it's good. But it's not his best like some people have said.
rsclutch1990 1 year ago
@rsclutch1990 what would you say is his best? just out of interest
WeirdAndGeeky 1 year ago
@WeirdAndGeeky Rain Dogs, without a doubt. Every single track is a classic.
playsguitarandsings 1 year ago
@rsclutch1990 Well, that is all a matter of opinion. Personally, it's not my favorite either...but to say that it's not the best, is only your opinion. It could be someone else's favorite.
LucidDream 1 year ago
THIS is a perfect song...Measure all pop and standard lyrics against this ruler.
0362868 1 year ago 2
What a wonderful album! In my opinion, the best of him
Narusiano 1 year ago
really one of his most beautiful records.....especially table top joe
happydot1 1 year ago
chet baker with tom waits!
betao1970 1 year ago 2
@betao1970 No way, I was just listening to a Chet Baker song and I noticed the similarities in Awesomeness as well
LadyeXo 1 year ago 2
@LadyeXo
I Definitely Agree with betao1970
chris4presidenttt 1 year ago
this song makes me cry.
alhododo 1 year ago
My name is alice :)
megsNali1411 1 year ago
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I fuckin' love this album. Poor Edward was the first Waits I ever heard, this song the second. Reeperbahn, Watch Her Disappear, Fawn, and Fish and Bird are still favorites of mine.
TheWoodworks 1 year ago
I fuckin' love this album. Poor Edward was the first Waits I ever heard, this song the second. Reeperbahn, Watch Her Disappear, Fawn, and Fish and Bird are still favorites of mine.
TheWoodworks 1 year ago
8 people are dead inside!
BluesBusker 1 year ago 83
@BluesBusker or they just dont got the song, because they cant think of alice :)
allesgute019 11 months ago
@BluesBusker I think your right .Pure genius Tom is the master of lyrical hypnotism!!!
zaperfan 9 months ago
@BluesBusker
9 :( (I feel a bit sad for them)
Goog4YourMood 9 months ago
@Goog4YourMood i agree. I feel sad for anyone who hasn't heard Tom Waits. It's like an initiation into life!
BluesBusker 9 months ago 4
Is there a more poignant song than this?
MurielToNowhere 1 year ago
im a real big fan of tom waits but this whole album i think is shit....maybe i just don't "get it" but some of the tracks sound like straight up noise...
ButteryGoombaZappa 1 year ago
@ButteryGoombaZappa i dont really like this album either. the title track is amazing and kommienzuspadt is fun but the rest is a snooze
cuddlesducks 1 year ago
@ButteryGoombaZappa Um no this song is not shit! My name is alice btw lol
megsNali1411 1 year ago
I love Tom Waits.
I love Alice.
I love Tom Waits and Alice!
autorinamstadt 1 year ago
Sometimes this song is hard to take. This is one of those times. It's dreamy weather...
dewanevl 1 year ago
i love alice.
Se7enACK 1 year ago
Hmm... New love, this song is great. And I am afraid of writing an exclamination mark.
The song is just not made for exclamination marks. It's made for short senteces.
Poetic sentences.
v0odo013isnt45evil 1 year ago
wowwwwww stupenddddddddd
noitedeluaamor 1 year ago
how have i NEVER heard of this man before? i mean, yeah, i was born in 1990 but still...shame on the people i know for never mentioning this incredible music to me!
hellspark 1 year ago 51
@hellspark :-) Try also Swordfishtrombones, it's wonderful!
TheFausap 1 year ago
@hellspark i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee him! i happened to find out about him because of a family death! we made a mix CD dedicated to my uncle when he passed away and this was on it!!
nickjonasluvr46 11 months ago
@hellspark man, we are the same age... i heard about him recently too.... idiotic world!
JaymzkgSerbia 11 month