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| Tom Waits – 9th & Hennepin Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Tom waits, I believe, spent some time in Minneapolis back in the 70's. I knew a guy who ran lights for him in a small bar told how TW said... "for this next song I want a piss yellow spotlight...". I also know someone from Mpls. who remembers the doughnut shop where they actually had names like prostitutes. Of course that's all gone now as they've "cleaned up" that whole part of Hennepin Ave. The line "No one brings anything small into a bar around here" is a direct quote from the Play/Movie "Harvey". Jimmy Stewart plays the character (in the movie) and he's describing his life with his friend Harvey (a large invisible rabbit) & how they spend their time in bars listening to peoples hopes & dreams & lives. |
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| Tom Waits – 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a song about a kind of dreamland character who is tormented by a crow that has appeared from a hole in the sky. He becomes obsessed with capturing it so spends all his money on a pack mule, builds a ladder and makes the mule climb up to the top of a tree. He uses the strings from his guitar to climb up to the hole where he catches the crow. Now he holds the crow prisoner in the Washburn (guitar) and rides off with it strapped to the back of the mule. He likes to bang on the strings & "strum it out loud" so he can now be the one who torments the crow. |
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| Tom Waits – (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It could be about being trapped in a dead end way of life and thinking there must be something more. You drive around, you seemingly have everything; girlfriend, money, car, gas. You spend all week at your 9to5 job and the only thing you have to look forward to is maybe this time, this Saturday night will be the one that changes your life. What you really get is drunk enough to forget that you have know idea how to find real happiness. "stumblin on to the heart of saturday night". |
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