Time (Tom Waits cover)

i love this song....but i haven't the faintest clue what it means. it's really interesting imagery, though, isn't it? and it's sung with such emotion. i would like to hear others' thoughts on it

uh i don't really know either... to me it sounds like a mother who's losing her child? i know this song's about a woman, and that it was written by Tom Waits.. but i love that song as well. she really does amazing covers.

but we have to give credit to Tom Waits first for writing this beautiful song.

yeah bof, it is about death. obviously empathized by the chorus (it's time) but you can tell it's from death's point of view, ex:

So just close your eyes, son And this won't hurt a bit

Death says before it takes a life

Death's perception of the ones left behind after a death: And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that -they try to supress the memories & pain.

History puts a saint in every dream Well she said she'd stick around Until the bandages came off -they have their religion to lean against in their time of sorrow, while grieveing. But time heals all wounds, so the saint only sticks around for a while, until the survivors are strong again which is fairly true: most people become more religious after a loss of a family member or friend

beautiful & sad song, kudos to tori for all the excellent covers - the strange little girls album is phenomenal, not to mention the corresponding artwork.

Well she said she'd stick around Until the bandages came off But these mamas boys just don't know when to quit And Matilda asks the sailors are those dreams Or are those prayers So just close your eyes, son And this won't hurt a bit

• this part for me it all screams EUTHANASIA >_< She who sticks around is the same person albeit Matilda. Mama boys are the same as the sailors. Most likely the scenario is in a war torn hospital where hopes for better health are fading so the end result is to end the suffering...

Well, things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl The boys just dive right off the cars And splash into the streets And when she's on a roll she pulls a razor From her boot and a thousand Pigeons fall around her feet

• For me, the calendar girl (beauty qeen? adored by so many), the boys that referred here are probably her husband and her sons.. accidentaly wipe out.. because of it she commits suicide.. >_<

So put a candle in the window And a kiss upon his lips Till the dish outside the window fills with rain

• A picture of a wake.

Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart And pay the fiddler off till I come back again

• till I come back again -> creepy. stating that death will come back again which is true...

i've read somewhere that it's about death. tori is writing from death's POV as she goes around taking people's lives. but...it still doesn't make total sense.