Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waitsis an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 December 1949
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
We are buried beneath the weight of information...
When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.