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.
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.
Off the album Blood Money (Anti Records, 2002).
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…”
“A Little Rain” (from the 1992 album Bone Machine), performed live in Austin on 20 March1999.
A protest song from the triple album Orphans – Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (ANTI- Records, 2006). Tom Waits at his most direct is devastating.