Tom Waits - Closing Time

[bencheshire]

I thought this song had lyrics... Title is a bit misleading.

[MultiBert07]

I am an alcoholic myself.

I love those blues songs.

[davey123267]

love

[niriop]

I like this piano version only; the sax isn't creeping in and trying to annex the song

[greatgooglymoogly12]

OMGZ THIS ISNT SEMISONIC!!!1111!!

[Dalittheuntouchable]

those cans are beautifully, unnaturally loud :)

[Zitrone1212]

BEAUTIFUL forever and ever and ever

Tom Waits is a great poet and a great musician. Truly Deeply Madly and full of wonders.

Thank you so much for posting this Video :-)

LOVE

[liosalan]

This is pure visual poetry

[selrahc84]

Waits and Beckett even better?

[Tebbek]

Waits and Bukowski now theres a pair.

[hobojon23]

i love the fact that i can go on literally any tom waits video and find nothing but praise for this amazing artist

[drafe007]

genius is a word that can never be over used in regards to thomas waits.

[Jonesin44]

Brass ruined the album version. Audience ruined this version. It's a damn shame cause It's such a beautiful piece of music.

[dakarlion1]

I heard this song at the beginning of the funeral of a favourite aunt. I had known the song for over 25 years but I can never hear it back again, reminding me of that. They can play it on my funeral too.

[GlennGould77]

This man is one of a kind and a true, original genius. To me he is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

[desperatemanblues]

So simple... so beautiful...

[hutley58]

A TRUE POET  AND YES SHEER GENIUS

[LuKstealer]

i used to listen to clear, clean recordings only, because i really didn't work hear the unnecessary background noises(such as the clapping. if only the clapping was somehow cut from this video.. sigh). However, I saw this video and now everything is different. the soft brushing sound of the broom, tingling(?) of the cans he threw, dropping the trash lid... everything is part of this music. Thank you Jostoc for uploading this awesome video, and thank you Tom for such a ____(indescribable) music.

[League1able]

GENIUS........LOVE YOU TOM

[mat696999]

i'd cut the hands of those people clapping hands....idiots.....??????????

[thelostirishmanmik]

tom waits is what every musician should strive to be, creating originality and beauty from ones own unique points of view and from ones own soul.

[kokoheal]

He evokes the melancholy like no other....

[MerchantEyes]

Looks so simple, takes a lot of practice to get this great.

[jtrozier]

Tom Waits: The Charlie Chaplin of music..

[djinconroe]

@jtrozier

I'd just watched this and said to my wife "He's got something of Charlie Chaplin in him" when I scrolled down and saw your comment. So true.

[monica256ful]

The mans a geniua, he knows how to go in deep

[felixq78]

Tom knows what it is to suffer and to be alone, hungry and desperate. I don't know how or when he learned these lessons but he knows.

[ZABlue26]

Painfully beautiful. First time hearing this and it is a sublime melancholy melody, set to powerful images by the legend himself

[savageknives1]

i just found "bone machine-the operator's manual" at a flea market. its tom being interviewed for radio and talking about each song. his mind works on a different plane than everyone else'. you can tell by the way he explains things. hes really great.

[thunderlola]

@pigletized I know just whatcha mean. *sigh*

[thunderlola]

@pigletized I know just whatcha mean *sigh*

[pigletized]

You can't help but love this guy.

[wagneratior2430]

such a wonderful man......

[BigBruinekool]

Few men can create such beauty out of typical, banal situations. Tom Waits is one of those men.

[acerflots]

love how his back straightens, this performance and music are filled with fluid sad happiness

[walakapalaeh]

genius...

[hanghang71]

do you have any more from this appearance

[joanlagoy]

Just wonderful...thank you so much!

joanie

[zlaja1969]

Great song, great video... Thanks...

[mavre]

... eh, si MRita. Sembra fatto apposta per chiudere una serata.

Un bacio. A dopo.