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Tom Waits Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Tom Waits Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus Lyrics
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26 Comments ... This song is amazingly sarcastic and brilliant. It's very obviously a stab at religious nuts who contradict themselves and hold large egos. "I ...
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Tom Waits - On the Nickel Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Waits - Green Grass Lyrics
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It talks about not wanting to be forgotten, though being dead, and not being able to let go of a loved one. In books and movies, we always hear that in the case ...
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Tom Waits - Downtown Train Lyrics
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It's about loneliness and dreaming of love that can't be reached. he is looking at the girl in the window, she is looking at the bright lights of the city, both ...
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Tom Waits - Blue Valentines Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Alice Lyrics
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This song is about obsession/paedophilia and yes the Dodgson (aka Lewis Carrol) / Alice Liddell affair is the vehicle we travel in. ' To go skating on your name ...
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Tom Waits - Time Lyrics
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The chorus of this song is repetitive for a very specific reason: Death is telling us, as the audience, that it's time that we love in our lives, before it's ...
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Tom Waits - That Feel Lyrics
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Well to someone it's being happy, as they know their sun will shine someday again, for some it's feeling worthless and empty, which comes always back to them, ...
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Tom Waits - Come on Up to the House Lyrics
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The song seems to be about being down on your luck, feeling mentally and emotionally depleted, possibly even at rock bottom, and finding help, hope, and ...
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Tom Waits - Black Market Baby Lyrics
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My 2 cents: "She's a black-market baby; she's a diamond that wants to stay coal" references something that could be brilliant if only it were given time and/or ...
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Tom Waits - Make It Rain Lyrics
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The rain nurtures life and makes things grow. It washes things clean. So, basically his wife/girlfriend left him and took everything, including his friends.
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Tom Waits - Invitation to the Blues Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Sins of My Father Lyrics
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This song is not only about the sins of a father being passed to the son, but the sins of humankind being passed to a generation. One ...
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Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone Lyrics
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When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, ...
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Tom Waits - Ol' 55 Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Waits - What's He Building in There? Lyrics
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He's not building anything; that's the point of the song. Tom Waits is singing from the point of view of a representative of the paranoid townspeople who view ...
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Tom Waits - Step Right Up Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Tom Waits - Big in Japan Lyrics
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"Big In Japan" has been a phrase for a long time about Superficial Bands that make it big only in Japan. It generally means a band is really quite crap.
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Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag Lyrics
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"Hoist that rag"= raise the flag over the conquered territory. "Rag" is sometimes used as a derogatory term for flag, but I don't think Tom is calling the ...
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Tom Waits - Hold On Lyrics
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He's saying "Yes i've treated you badly, but you can't have been worth much in the first place because you were easy to win." It's the idea that a woman who ...
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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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Tom Waits - Singapore Lyrics
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"Let marrow bone and cleaver choose while making feet for children shoes" is a reference to sex, as Omnicide said. "Marrowbone and cleaver" is slang for penis.
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Tom Waits - Clap Hands Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine Lyrics
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it is about when you are just seeking what makes you feel good with no reguard for consiquence. Life is full of pain and suffering but sometimes ( and usuallya ...
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Tom Waits - Martha Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground Lyrics
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This song is not about poverty, but simplicity. The paring down of life to the essentials: a stone to warm your bed, wood in the shed, and a bottle to pass ...
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Tom Waits - Jesus Gonna Be Here Lyrics
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The song is a commentary on mentality of the uneducated poor who claim and cling to religion like a child clings to the belief of Santa Claus. " ...
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Tom Waits - Diamonds & Gold Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Tom Waits - God's Away on Business Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Tom Waits - Telephone Call from Istanbul Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Tom Waits - Shore Leave Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms Lyrics
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What a beautiful song, from the Salvation Army style brass band at the intro to the lush strings off the main song, it has a sense of sadness and finality to it ...
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Tom Waits - Falling Down Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Tom Waits - I'll Be Gone Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Tom Waits - Soldier's Things Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Ice Cream Man Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Tom Waits - Underground Lyrics
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Perhaps, if all humanity dies, they will still live. It's about fearing people who work harder than you. One time or another, they will throw you out of your ...
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Tom Waits - Dead and Lovely Lyrics
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I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his ...
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Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon Lyrics
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It is a beautiful and powerful song. To answer Frogboys, what the lyrics mean is simple enough. The grapefruit-shaped moon, combined with the melody of a song ...
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Tom Waits - Town with No Cheer Lyrics
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This song is about s small town on the border of Victoria, Australia called Serviceton. There is a train station in Serviceton and the Overlander train does ...
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Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Lyrics
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You got the right idea Phweemaggot, the term rain dog, is just that, a dog in the rain cannot smell the scents that mark territory. Therefore it cannot find ...
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Tom Waits - Flower's Grave Lyrics
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I think Waits is dreaming of happier times, perhaps the joy in hope. "No one puts flowers on a flowers grave," meaning that no one will remember and reflect on ...
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Tom Waits - Lonely Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Waits - Rosie Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - I'm Still Here Lyrics
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This song is from Alice, and it's about Alice, after she was written/created and she feels left behind. The first time I heard this song it was really late at ...
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Tom Waits - Burma-Shave Lyrics
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This is a fantastic piece of poetry on so many levels. It all starts with using Burma Shave as a symbol for the highways of America, which are symbolic of the ...
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