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'What IS he building in there?'

harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
edited May 2006 in Other Music
In honour of me buying my very first Tom Waits album today, I have to ask this question:

'What IS he building in there?'

Any ideas?

I'm voting that he's building a reconstruction of the mountain where the aliens will visit.
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

- the great Sir Leo Harrison
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  • StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
    so you did go with Mule Variations?

    I think he's building some kind of bomb, by the way.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    And what's that tune he's
    Always whistling...
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    StoneG82 wrote:
    so you did go with Mule Variations?

    I think he's building some kind of bomb, by the way.

    No, actually, I heard this song on itunes, as well seeing the MTV2 video of it on youtube. I went for 'Closing Time', as I want to go in chronological order. I love most of 'Closing Time' - 'Lonely', 'Martha' and 'Ol' 55' particularly. Just occasionally it's a little cliched lyric-wise, but that's not often. I think this album showed massive potential for the highly creative man Waits became.

    And thanks to the Pit for introducing us!
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    No, actually, I heard this song on itunes, as well seeing the MTV2 video of it on youtube. I went for 'Closing Time', as I want to go in chronological order. I love most of 'Closing Time' - 'Lonely', 'Martha' and 'Ol' 55' particularly. Just occasionally it's a little cliched lyric-wise, but that's not often. I think this album showed massive potential for the highly creative man Waits became.

    And thanks to the Pit for introducing us!

    whats great with waits is....his records get better and better from there on out.

    have fun!
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I always thought he was just referring to someone who didn't go out much, and raising the curiousity of his neighbors. He isn't building anything dangerous, but the story in the neighorhood keeps getting wilder and wilder.

    Nobody really knows the guy, but they all seem to know an awful lot ABOUT him.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    we have a right to know.
  • StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
    I swear to God I heard someone moaning.....low.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
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