Saturday, March 31, 2007
Shudder
I was introduced to Tom Waits' music in 1989 on a road trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles with my friend Jennifer Brown. On a drive that long you have plenty of time, so it was possible to get aquainted with a lot of his work.
One thing you can count on Tom Waits to do is to hit you in the gut with his lyrics. Sometimes they're hauntingly beautiful, sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're pretty darn spooky.
For the last couple of years, I've stuck on Don't Go Into That Barn, mostly because of the chilling lyrics:
Whose music do you find moving because of the lyrics or music or whatever? Any road trip songs?
One thing you can count on Tom Waits to do is to hit you in the gut with his lyrics. Sometimes they're hauntingly beautiful, sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're pretty darn spooky.
For the last couple of years, I've stuck on Don't Go Into That Barn, mostly because of the chilling lyrics:
Bank since Saginaw Calinda was bornIf I knew how to embed music here, I'd put this song in so you could listen to it.
It’s been cotton, soybeans, tobacco and corn
Behind the porticoed house of a
Long dead farm
They found the falling down timbers
Of a spooky old barn
Out there like a slave ship
Upside down
Wrecked beneath the waves of a rain
When the river is low
They find old bones and
When they plow they always
Dig up chains
Whose music do you find moving because of the lyrics or music or whatever? Any road trip songs?
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He's a poet for sure. Wonderful lyrics. I couldn't begin to answer who's music moves me - long list but road trip? Tom Petty. Definitely although also one of many.
Peace...........
Peace...........
Haunting lyrics that paint a vivid mind picture.
Most of the songs I hear are ones my son plays really loudly. The lyrics cannot be deciphered. Me thinks these rockers care not a thing about precise diction. :)
I'm a Kansas fan!! Their songs are good road trip songs.
I scrolled down some to get caught up a bit.
I love the photo of you in Urgent Care.
You are SUCH A DEDICATED blogger.
Come hell or IV, Jen is thinking about her blog buddies. :)
Most of the songs I hear are ones my son plays really loudly. The lyrics cannot be deciphered. Me thinks these rockers care not a thing about precise diction. :)
I'm a Kansas fan!! Their songs are good road trip songs.
I scrolled down some to get caught up a bit.
I love the photo of you in Urgent Care.
You are SUCH A DEDICATED blogger.
Come hell or IV, Jen is thinking about her blog buddies. :)
My first Tom Waits experience was "Tom Traubert's Blues."
Awesome song with a chorus (Waltzing Matilda) that just gets stuck in my head.
Awesome song with a chorus (Waltzing Matilda) that just gets stuck in my head.
Lyrics that haunt me: Gillian Welch, Ray LaMontagne, so many. Try Gillian Welch's "Caleb Meyer" or "One Morning" or "Annabelle:"
I lease twenty acres and one Jenny mule
From the Alabama trust
For half of the cotton, a third of the corn
You get a handful of dust
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
I had a daughter, called her Annabelle
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
I didn't want to ever hear her cry
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears
For every day I've ever known
Anna's in the churchyard, she's got no life at all
She's only got these words on a stone:
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
--
Road trip songs: Soundgarden, Melvins, stuff I can sing along to like Indigo Girls, or desert music like Brant Bjork.
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I lease twenty acres and one Jenny mule
From the Alabama trust
For half of the cotton, a third of the corn
You get a handful of dust
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
I had a daughter, called her Annabelle
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
I didn't want to ever hear her cry
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears
For every day I've ever known
Anna's in the churchyard, she's got no life at all
She's only got these words on a stone:
We can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
--
Road trip songs: Soundgarden, Melvins, stuff I can sing along to like Indigo Girls, or desert music like Brant Bjork.
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