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Tom Waits — Long Way Home
Album: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
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Released: 2006
Length: 3:06
Plays (last 30 days): 2
Well I stumbled in the darkness
I'm lost and alone
Though I said I'd go before us
And show the way back home
There a light up ahead
I can't hold onto her arm
Forgive me pretty baby but I always take the long way home

Money's just something you throw
Off the back of a train
Got a head full of lightning
A hat full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home

I put food on the table
And roof overhead
But I'd trade it all tomorrow
For the highway instead
Watch your back if I should tell you
Love's the only thing I've ever known
One thing for sure pretty baby I always take the long way home

You know I love you baby
More than the whole wide world
You are my woman
I know you are my pearl
Let's go out past the party lights
Where we can finally be alone
Come with me and we can take the long way home
Come with me, together we can take the long way home
Come with me, together we can take the long way home
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 jjbix37 wrote:

man, if I knew you could be a successful singer with a crappy voice, I could have made it BIG!


Don't forget you would still need a phenomenal gift for melody, extremely clever lyrics, superb musicianship, and unique arrangements. And even with all that, you probably still  wouldn't make it big. 
But you might be big in Japan. 

 jjbix37 wrote:

man, if I knew you could be a successful singer with a crappy voice, I could have made it BIG!

First you write the lyrics and they tell the story. Then you place the lryics with Music notes. Then you smoke and drink and sing just like Tom Waits.
Easy. Everyone can sing like Tom Waits. (and Bob Dylan). Pass go and collect your money.

man, if I knew you could be a successful singer with a crappy voice, I could have made it BIG!
Tom is the bomb…”free the glutens!”
which one is the cover? https://radioparadise.com/musi...
Tom is The Man..  Just accept it!!
Something got reset: I gave this song a 10 years ago....
2nd comment on a fabulous Tom Waits Song!? Rated this song (I knew since years) with a solid 9!
Can't believe there are no comments - sure I've heard this on RP many a time...

What a voice! legend...