@PERAGR0 So it's a song about a girl away from home. It seems as though she is sent to the gallows. So I think the wheels belong to a cart carrying her body.
He's the greatest. Look at the iTunes Top 10, listen to the previews, and come back here to get over the disappointment you'll feel at the modern world.
@PERAGR0 My guess is that he is looking at something like a group of traveling minstrels and admiring the simplicity and honesty involved in said production. I think he's comparing the beauty and honesty conveyed in this type of performance venue (on the streets) vs. that of the limelight where one gets easily caught up in overproduction and the true essence and intentions of one's music become obscured. I have many friends who have left the stage for the streets to find themselves
What a man, what a song. So good when it calms right down and then the piano creeps in. He's a master at doing that. He can turn any song with any meaning into a lullaby. Feels like Christmas everytime I hear him
@PERAGR0 Tom Waits was playing in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus. There the stage was the actor's cart and he was impersonating The Devil. Maybe? We should ask him...
I was a bit worried when I bought "Bad as Me", but man, Tom's back. This album is so much like his good old stuff as well as being brand new. He experiments with some new sounds here, and this song is just tragic - heartbreaking.
Brilliant song. I was looking for this yesterday (I have it on cd but I was too lazy and drunk to go down stairs and play it) but I couldn't find it anywhere. Cheers man.
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She doesn't kill herself. " I've sewn a little luck up in the hem of my my gown" the next stage on wheels is a stage coach gettin out of town fast.
kittcourt 2 weeks ago
She doesn't kill herself. " I've sewn a little luck up in the hem of my my gown" the next stage on wheels is a stage coach gettin out of town fast.
kittcourt 2 weeks ago
@PERAGR0 So it's a song about a girl away from home. It seems as though she is sent to the gallows. So I think the wheels belong to a cart carrying her body.
MrTurtleRising 3 weeks ago
The best song on Bad as Me, and one of Waits best songs ever.. simply amazing.
DallasSkinnyPuppy 1 month ago
He's the greatest. Look at the iTunes Top 10, listen to the previews, and come back here to get over the disappointment you'll feel at the modern world.
winters0123 1 month ago
@PERAGR0 My guess is that he is looking at something like a group of traveling minstrels and admiring the simplicity and honesty involved in said production. I think he's comparing the beauty and honesty conveyed in this type of performance venue (on the streets) vs. that of the limelight where one gets easily caught up in overproduction and the true essence and intentions of one's music become obscured. I have many friends who have left the stage for the streets to find themselves
aandersn3 1 month ago
hope.
JannaLeise 1 month ago
favorite song on bad as me.
kaylapowpow 1 month ago
Jesus, this could easily fit on Frank's Wild Years. "and I kick my foot at the lights."
UncleErnie71 1 month ago
just read hearse in the comments. yep. that's it. same result different vessel. nice one.
deppewaits 1 month ago
Genius. My favourite song on the new album. I thought (in response to Peragro) that the next stage was a coffin...
Please come to Australia again TW!
deppewaits 1 month ago
@PERAGR0
A hearse?
BigAlMoho 1 month ago
What a man, what a song. So good when it calms right down and then the piano creeps in. He's a master at doing that. He can turn any song with any meaning into a lullaby. Feels like Christmas everytime I hear him
TheTwelfthOfMay 1 month ago
@PERAGR0 He might mean a hearse.
skodadog1 2 months ago
@skodadog1 Bang on, good thinking
TheTwelfthOfMay 1 month ago
@PERAGR0 Tom Waits was playing in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus. There the stage was the actor's cart and he was impersonating The Devil. Maybe? We should ask him...
:-)
nilnauman 2 months ago 2
@nilnauman I think he is talking about suicide ... "the next stage will have wheels" , maybe when someone hangs himself comes quite handy ;)
Thats how i understand it anyway
CreativedotMedia 1 month ago
So schön, unglaublich gefühlvoll, ein emotionaler Schatz!!! Thank you, so much!!!
pirjopauli 2 months ago
wow!
bryncomeaux 2 months ago
Classic waits tune,the new album far better than my original expectations,
Brilliant stuff!
williemac1 3 months ago
What a beautiful song. Then just when you think the song is finished. That piano comes in at the end, it's just sublime, its perfection.
thame15 3 months ago 16
I was a bit worried when I bought "Bad as Me", but man, Tom's back. This album is so much like his good old stuff as well as being brand new. He experiments with some new sounds here, and this song is just tragic - heartbreaking.
I'm so glad he's back.
SecondMarlowe 3 months ago
...... -_- beautiful
sackarschantilope 3 months ago
what a beautiful song!
CreativedotMedia 3 months ago
Absolut fantastic
Odderskov99 3 months ago
The Pogues are one of Tom's favorite bands. i can hear the influence in this song.
muckyducky70 3 months ago 2
Still the best.
kevycanavan 3 months ago 2
Brilliant song. I was looking for this yesterday (I have it on cd but I was too lazy and drunk to go down stairs and play it) but I couldn't find it anywhere. Cheers man.
ToliveAnimations 3 months ago 11