There used to be a beautiful version of this on Youtube by Jolie Holland that I looked for to post, but it’s been blocked. Here’s the original instead, from Waits’ 1992 Bone Machine album, the first of his I ever heard.
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tom waits – god’s away on business (2002)
Off the album Blood Money (Anti Records, 2002).
tom waits – dead and lovely
From Real Gone (Anti, 2004).
“She was a middle class girl
She was in over her head
She thought she could stand up in the deep end…”
tom waits – a little rain (live)
“A Little Rain” (from the 1992 album Bone Machine), performed live in Austin on 20 March1999.
tom waits – the road to peace (2006)
A protest song from the triple album Orphans – Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (ANTI- Records, 2006). Tom Waits at his most direct is devastating.
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