She was a middle class girl She was in over her head She thought she could Stand up in the deep end He had a bullet proof smile He had money to burn She thought she had the moon In her pocket But now she’s dead She’s so dead Forever dead and lovely now… Oh…
He has no children of his Own you see… He has no dog And he has no friends and His lawn is dying… and What about all those packages He sends. What’s he building in there? Tom Waits’s brilliantly macabre 1999 spoken-word song What’s He Building is absolutely infuriating. Horrifyingly, maddeningly infuriating. Of course, it makes for…
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping Someone said you’ll never get a wish from a bone Another wrong goodbye and a hundred sailors That deep blue sky is my home… Tom Waits… man. With his inimitable vocal stylings, you could go with any one of a zillion of his songs and…