Tom Waits - Time

Tom Waits-Time, from the 1985 album 'Rain Dogs'. Backing video taken from a live performance on the 1988 film 'Big Time'.

Lyrics:

Well the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here

And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
That history puts a saint in every dream

Well she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
And Mathilda asks the sailors "Are those dreams or are those prayers?"
So close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit

Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'til I come back again

Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tom
• Waits
• Time
• Rain
• Dogs
• 1985
• Swordfishtrombones
• Big
• Frank's
• Wild
• Years
• ballad
• inspirational
• guitar
• blues rock
• folk rock

[Intensitalian]

This song plucks at the very strings that hold my sanity in place. I miss her.

[witkola]

I've driven the interstate east passed East Saint Louis, Missouri, in the rain and this song wonderfully captured the poetry of that moment.

No one else sings it better than Tom Waits. Nobody.

[MaeNotEast]

Thanks for the upload. One of my favourite Tom Waits songs.

[vagelistoujours]

και όλα αυτά που δε θυμάσαι, λένε σε όσα δεν ξεχνάς...

[TheEgiptana]

@Intensitalian

so put a candle in the window and keep your heart home until it feels it is time -again-.

[simbad1956]

thanks forever

[qariqris]

i love you, Tom Waits

[Maetel22]

@Intensitalian *hug*

[1979LilBoo]

This is how love is.. how life is..

[rickenbacker03]

Many great artists were subject to making shitty music in the 80s. Tom Waits is an exception.

[overtones]

Thanks Tom always loved this one