The song is about Tom's friend Larry Beazer who while on a date needed to get her back to Pasadena, and the only gear left on his car was reverse
so the song is about the drive back home, in reverse, with every car flashing him, a bunch of cars stuck behind him cause he's so slow going backwards (the parade he's leading), being over taken by trucks cause again he's so slow
and even though everyone else on the road is mad at him, he's had a great date and is generally pretty happy
The song is about Tom's friend Larry Beazer who while on a date needed to get her back to Pasadena, and the only gear left on his car was reverse so the song is about the drive back home, in reverse, with every car flashing him, a bunch of cars stuck behind him cause he's so slow going backwards (the parade he's leading), being over taken by trucks cause again he's so slow and even though everyone else on the road is mad at him, he's had a great date and is generally pretty happy
Tom Discussed it on the VH1 storyteller album
@AbnormalErnie I suspect that's Waits pulling the audience's collective leg?
@AbnormalErnie I suspect that's Waits pulling the audience's collective leg?
@AbnormalErnie I suspect that's Waits pulling the audience's collective leg?
@AbnormalErnie I suspect that's Waits pulling the audience's collective leg?