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The Fall of Troy Lyrics
It's the same with men as with horses and dogs,
Nothing wants to die.
Ethel and James they killed in a game
with guns too big for their hands
just off St. Charles in no-mans land
and you'll have to find your own way home.
Boys, you'll have to find your own way home.
The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year-old boy
Shot dead in March during a robbery
his brother started out to hell and to ruin
Troy's killer was never caught they say.
Young nick he just went bad that day
Now he'll have to find his own way home.
Boys, he'll have to find his own way home.
Why cook dinner?
Why make my bed?
Why come home at all?
Out the door and through the woods
There is a world where nothing grows
It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place
Of someone missing at the table
Mom's hair sprayed? tight
And her face in her hands
Watching TV for answers to me
After all she's only human
And she's trying to find her own way home.
Boys, she's trying to find her own way home.
My legs ache
My heart is sore
The well is full of pennies.
Nothing wants to die.
Ethel and James they killed in a game
with guns too big for their hands
just off St. Charles in no-mans land
and you'll have to find your own way home.
Boys, you'll have to find your own way home.
Shot dead in March during a robbery
his brother started out to hell and to ruin
Troy's killer was never caught they say.
Young nick he just went bad that day
Now he'll have to find his own way home.
Boys, he'll have to find his own way home.
Why make my bed?
Why come home at all?
Out the door and through the woods
There is a world where nothing grows
It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place
Of someone missing at the table
Mom's hair sprayed? tight
And her face in her hands
Watching TV for answers to me
After all she's only human
And she's trying to find her own way home.
Boys, she's trying to find her own way home.
My heart is sore
The well is full of pennies.
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This is a beautiful song, about tragedy and the unique struggle of trying to cope with the loss of a loved one.
just to clear it up this song is NOT by the fall of troy.
But it's funny though, that Fall of Troy has made a song named "Tom Waits". Probably not a coincidence ;)
This song always moves me to tears, especially at the last bit "the well is full of pennies" Just so much there in that line, about hope and wishes that will never be answered. I need a tissue!
Tom said on a radio show before playing the song: "This is a song I wrote with my wife, Kathleen Brennan. This was a news article, about two kids that, uh, were involved in a shooting, and they were young kids. That was in New Orleans."
tom really knows how to translate loss, tragedy and emotion with his voice and the simplicity of the music! beautiful
This is one of my favorites by them, but I really like their old stuff as well, when they were still known as "Thirty Years War"... But, this is a great song. What I've noticed about them in general is that most of their songs are depressing, or about someone that's gone. Very pretty though.