 Genius Meanings
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Tom Waits – Ice Cream Man
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[Verse 1] / I'll be clicking by your house about 2:45 / With sidewalk sundae, strawberry surprise / I got a cherry popsicle right on time / A big stick, momma, that'll blow your
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Chiddy Bang – Ice Cream Man
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[Chorus: Tom Waits] / I'm the ice cream man / I'm a one-man band / I'm the ice cream man, honey I'll be good to you / I'm the ice cream man / I'm a one-man band / I'm the ice cream
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins – Ice Cream Man
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Clicking by your house about two forty-five / Sidewalk sundae, strawberry surprise / Got a cherry popsicle right on time / I got a big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind / Well, I
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Tom Waits – Frank's Song
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That woman will take you / That woman will break you / That woman will make you / Something you've never seen / That woman's got claws / That woman's got laws / Now look out man
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Tom Waits – Rockin' Chair
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Well I'm sittin' right here in my rockin' chair / Running my fingers right through my hair / Fire is flicken with a yellow and gold / Makin' me quiver in the snowy cold / I got a
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Tom Waits – Martha
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The last song on the A side of Waits' first album Closing Time. It was covered the same year by Tim Buckley, who was a more established artist at the time.
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Tom Waits – Chocolate Jesus
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This is a eh a song for those of you in the audience who have trouble getting up on Sunday morning and going to church. I’ve discovered something, ehm it’s a candy item. It’s
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Tom Waits – Virginia Avenue
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Well, I'm walking on down Virginia Avenue / Trying to find somebody to tell my troubles to / Harold's Club is closing / And everybody's going on home: / What's a poor boy to do
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Tom Waits – Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again
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Well, the sun came in my window Wednesday morning / And your love was like the golden rays again / Now I'm lyin' here on a Thursday and you're lovin' someone new / And it looks
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Tom Waits – Poncho's Lament
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Well the stairs sound so lonely without you / I ain't made my bed in a week / Coffee stains on the paper I'm writing / And I'm too choked up inside to speak / And yes, I know our
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Tom Waits – Lonely
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[Verse] / Lonely, lonely, lonely / Lonely eyes, lonely face / Lonely, lonely in your place / Lonely, lonely / Lonely eyes, lonely face / Lonely, lonely in your place / [Bridge] / I
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Tom Waits – Rosie
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[Verse 1] / Well, I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn / Nobody's up except the moon and me / And a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree / And all that you left me was a
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Tom Waits – I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You
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[Verse 1] / Well, I hope that I don't fall in love with you / 'Cause falling in love just makes me blue / Well, the music plays and you display your heart for me to see / I had a
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Tom Waits – Ol' 55
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One of Tom Waits' first songs. Initially, he was flattered when The Eagles covered it, but later he spoke derisively about their homage:
I frankly was not that particularly crazy
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Tom Waits – Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
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I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung / I've been putting it off for a while / But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear / That I cry when I'm seeing you smile
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Tony Joe White – Ice Cream Man
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She's a cover pulling mama but I don't mind her in my bed / I got the fireplace going and the firewood in the shed / She got a nice warm body and sweet dreams in her head / She's a
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Tom Waits – Grapefruit Moon
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[Verse 1] / Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me / Heard that tune, now I'm pining, honey, can't you see? / 'Cause every time I hear that melody, something breaks
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Tom Waits – Had Me a Girl
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Well, I had me a girl in L.A / I knew she couldn't stay / Had me a girl in San Diego / One day she just had to go / And I had me a girl Tallahassee / Boy what a foxy lassie / And
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Tom Waits – Goin' Down Slow
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Well it’s a quarter a two / And looking at you / And going down, going down slow / Well it’s a quarter a two / And looking at you / And going down, going down slow / Tv went off
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Will Wood – Chocolate Jesus (Tom Waits Cover)
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Well, I don't go to church on Sunday / Don't get on my knees and pray / Don't memorize the books of no Bible / I got my own special way / And I know Jesus loves me / Maybe just a
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Classified – Beatin It
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Class' fifth track on Hitch Hikin Music
Class, the master producer shows his genius and talent by teaching us a thing or two on making beats and sampling.
The sample (the piano
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Tom Waits – I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
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Well I got here at eight and I'll be here till two / I'll try my best to entertain you / And please don't mind me if I get a bit crude / I'm your late night evening prostitute / So
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Tom Waits – In the Neighborhood
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Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan / And the whinin' dog pigeons by the steeple bell rope / And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night / And there's
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Tom Waits – Midnight Lullaby
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[Verse 1] / Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye / Hush-a-bye, my baby, no need to be crying / You can burn the midnight oil with me as long as you will / Stare out at the
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Tom Waits – So Long I'll See Ya
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Mama's in the kitchen, daddy's on the phone / And nobody knows what's going on / But I've got them so long I'll see you / 'Cause my Buick's outside waiting blues / Well one for the
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Tom Waits – Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
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[Verse 1] / Little trip to heaven on the wings of your love / Banana moon is shining in the sky / Feel like I'm in heaven when you're with me / Know that I'm in heaven when you
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Tom Waits – 'T’ Ain’t No Sin
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When you hear sweet syncopation / And the music softly moans / 'Tain't no sin to take off your skin / And dance around in your bones / When it gets too hot for comfort / And you
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Billy’s Band – Jockey Full Of Bourbon
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Edna Million in a drop dead suit / Dutch Pink on a downtown train / Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot / I'm in the corner on the pouring rain / Sixteen men on a dead man's
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The Zolas – Escape Artist
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He is happiest when life has an aspect of danger or intrigue.
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Madvillain – Figaro
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“Figaro” is track 14 of Madvillainy, the collab album between Madlib & MF DOOM.
This song samples Dr. Lonnie Smith’s ‘In the Beginning’ and ‘Jeannine’ (Sample appears at 2:20).
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Bo Burnham – Sad
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This song is about all the “sad” things Bo sees in the world. Later in the song, he talks, sarcastically, about how we should forget about being sad about everything, and laugh at
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins – Heart Attack and Vine
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Liar, liar with your drawers on fire / White spades hangin' on the telephone wire / Gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line / You'll never recognize yourself on heartattack and
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