This is the first in a series of posts partly as filler and partly as a way to express my intense fandom of Tom Waits. On the first of every month (schedule subject to change) I will put up either a video or audio sample of a Waits song and include the lyrics below. Sure, this stuff is available elsewhere but it’s my blog and I get to put whatever interests me at the time up on it. So to start off with we have a slow melodic tune which contains the beat-era come bukowski style of poetry with which Tom writes his lyrics. Enjoy.
I fell into the ocean
When you became my wife
I risked it all against the sea
To have a better lifeMarie you’re the wild blue sky
And men do foolish things
You turn kings into beggars
And beggars into kingsPretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is greenThe face forgives the mirror
The worm forgives the plow
The questions begs the answer
Can you forgive me somehowMaybe when our story’s over
We’ll go where it’s always spring
The band is playing our song again
And all the world is greenPretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is greenThe moon is yellow silver
Oh the things that summer brings
It’s a love you’d kill for
And all the world is greenHe is balancing a diamond
On a blade of grass
The dew will settle on our grave(s)
When all the world is green
