| Tom Waits – Gun Street Girl Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I found some Tom Waits quotes on the net about this song: "Gun Street Girl is about a guy who's having trouble with the law and he traces all of these events back to this girl he met on Gun Street right there on Center Market right in Little Italy there." "I tried to make it a tale in a tale, y'know? Where is the end of this tale? Y'know? There's: "Telling everyone they saw the went thataway". There's this girl tied to a tree with a skinny millionaire and a guy coming into Baker with a pistol and a... So I just tried to throw it all in there and make it like eh... "What the hell's going on around here?!" Y'know? It's like when you wake up in the middle of the night and you try to remember something that you don't, you remember just pieces of things? Y'know?" Soakin' day old bread in kerosene: WW-II survival countertracking technique, to escape a tracker dog trailing ones scent, by carrying bread or tobacco soaked in petrol, gasoline or kerosene. Thanks to whoever posted these, at this link: http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/lyrics/raindogs/gunstreetgirl.html |
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| The National – Slow Show Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I went to their gig in Toronto and concentrated on this line - I'm sure it's "lost in drugs", which makes more sense of the line "drive a car through my head in five minutes". I also think the chorus is "I'm very frightened I'll overdo it" cheers |
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