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this interview fragment from when Big Time came out (1988) has Waits opining crazily about moles at the beginning. So perhaps this song is really about burrowing animals and their "cities" and societies, and not allegorically about music at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrDfCSZJmI
this interview fragment from when Big Time came out (1988) has Waits opining crazily about moles at the beginning. So perhaps this song is really about burrowing animals and their "cities" and societies, and not allegorically about music at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrDfCSZJmI