Tom Waits

Intro to "On a Foggy Night"

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Well I think it's about time I took you on an improvisational adventure into the bowels of the metropolitan region. Looks like a bonafide, high voltage, decked out in full regalia, Angelino audience. Driving in, in Subarus, Pintos, Malibus, Oldsmobiles. A small suburban community. This is a...kinda 'bout 2.30 in the morning, you've been standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth and you climb into the helm of a 1958 monkey shit brown Buick Super and you're on your way home. A luxury automobile, bought it Dollar Bill's E-Z Autos for next to nothing. Cruising along, everything's going fine, put a little smooth music on the stereo. Light up an Old Gold; save the coupon. Gotta think in terms of that patio furniture and that Toro mower, man. You're on the Santa Monica Freeway headed in an easterly direction, you just passed the La Cienega turnoff and you run into a *cold* fog bank.

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ecorchee1 On Oct 20, 2008

Hoist That Rag

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)

Martha

Come on Up to the House

Downtown Train

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