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| Tom Waits – Rain Dogs Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Waits honeymooned in Ireland with his wife Kathleen, in Cork to be more specific. Slightly to the North of Cork is County Kerry, where Tralee is located. And he is the link to the tragic tale of "The Rose of Tralee"...
http://ireland.iol.ie/~rose/story.htm |
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| Tom Waits – Little Drop of Poison Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The lyrics above are pretain to the original version of the song, which was recorded in 1997 for the soundtrack to the film "End of Violence". Waits rerecorded thia song in 2003 for "Shrek2", with a slightly different arrangement (my favorite being the latter). the lyric arrangements are different in the new version. |
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| Tom Waits – Make It Rain Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I always thought that he meant (in the title), 'let luck or good fortune rain down on him again'. Get him out of this rut and let him see good times again. It's an interesting school of thought that he might of killed his best friend over the woman, but it's debatable. She oblivously dumped him, took all his money and his best friend (see Freddie King's "Have you ever Loved a Woman?", frequently covered by Eric Clapton), the latter leading me to believe she left him for the best friend. And at this point he has no pride or shame and will do anything to get her back or get back at her or just get over her. At night he's laying there alone, knowing she's out there with someone else, he feels evil and 'needs a whip of thunder' and cites how he is not 'able' to do anything about it and now feels like 'Cain' (feeling malevolent). He then seems to discuss how he was so close to heaven (with her), but got crushed at the closing gate and now all the mistakes he made (in the relationship maybe) are thrown in his faces like knifes by her or his critics. And it's gotten so low or disparaging that 'you can't give it a name.' But near the end it seems that he might even take her back if he could, because no other pain could ever hurt him this bad. It seems his luck always turns out like this because he is 'born of trouble'. Even though the world is exactly as it was yesterday, it doesn't look anything like it did to him anymore; without her at his side (hence his gloom). And he pleads again that he feels so alone here that he needs the heavens to rain down on him and help him overcome this, in anyway possible. But who knows, that's just me...lol |
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