Basstrap
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Damn, this is one fantastic album
Definitely in my top 10 albums of the 80's. Waits is a poetic virtuoso on level with cohen...but the two of them are really apples and oranges.
Cohen will make his lady melt in her shoes while Waits will just carry her off and pillage her village on the way out.
now, that's being a little unfair...Waits has quite a few of romantic ditty's, but his voice, the mood of the songs....I don't know....he's a damn pirate.
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
"I said hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone"
"Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'til I come back again"
Definitely in my top 10 albums of the 80's. Waits is a poetic virtuoso on level with cohen...but the two of them are really apples and oranges.
Cohen will make his lady melt in her shoes while Waits will just carry her off and pillage her village on the way out.
now, that's being a little unfair...Waits has quite a few of romantic ditty's, but his voice, the mood of the songs....I don't know....he's a damn pirate.
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
"I said hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone"
"Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'til I come back again"