Buelah might also be a reference to William Blake's cosmology, wherein Buelah (in the bible it is Palestine redeemed) is a metaphysical plane between Ulro (reality in all its cold, newtonian determinism) & Paradise. Buelah is where Blake's songs of innocence take place and could be equated with the freudian subconscious & the Jungian Collective unconscious. In The Marriage of heaven & hell blake calls it a place where "contraries are equally true". Buelah, a land of imagination & dreams, would be a place where death coexists with life and love could indeed be eternal. I think it fits, & wouldn't be surprised if Waits was a Blake fan. He's been in Jarmush films & Jarmush's Dead Man is full of Blake.
Buelah might also be a reference to William Blake's cosmology, wherein Buelah (in the bible it is Palestine redeemed) is a metaphysical plane between Ulro (reality in all its cold, newtonian determinism) & Paradise. Buelah is where Blake's songs of innocence take place and could be equated with the freudian subconscious & the Jungian Collective unconscious. In The Marriage of heaven & hell blake calls it a place where "contraries are equally true". Buelah, a land of imagination & dreams, would be a place where death coexists with life and love could indeed be eternal. I think it fits, & wouldn't be surprised if Waits was a Blake fan. He's been in Jarmush films & Jarmush's Dead Man is full of Blake.