God's Away on Business Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TheEmil 

Cover art for God's Away on Business lyrics by Tom Waits

I find it funny that he mentions lawyers together with killers and thieves.

Me too, that was funny.

the original song was "killers, thieves and whores" in the play woyzeck (where the blood money album comes from). whores was replaced with lawyers for the studio version.

still very funny though

Very astute observation from Tom.

This song is probably more relevent than it was 20 years ago.

Don't take God to be the literal/literary (take you're pick) figure, it's an allegory, to say "No-one's getting us out of this mess."