| Tom Waits – Bronx Lullabye/Smugglers Waltz Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Maybe when he wrote it he was thinking about a hitman who goes to New York City to murder a young drug dealer who fell out of line with a drug lord, or something like that - in that case maybe going out for a dime bag means the hitman is going to buy drugs from the dealer in order to get close and then do the hit - if so - then going out for a 'dime bag of schoolboy' seems to have a secondary allusion to the dealer himself. That just leaves 'pretty blue shoe box' which maybe is a body bag, city-morgue coffin, city-morgue hearse, ambulance, etc.. None which seem to quite fit "pretty blue shoe box" too well.. Seems like there are allusions to him being the father of the dealer - but seems more to me like it's just an allusion to the age difference - not to actual blood relation.. | |
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