Tom Waits - 'Long Way Home'

"Long Way Home" by Tom Waits from the album 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards'

Lyrics

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
is there a light up ahead
I can't hold on very long
forgive me pretty baby but
I always take the long way home

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

I put food on the table
and a roof over our head
but I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead
watch your back
keep your eyes shut tight
your love's the only thing I've ever known
one thing's 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
you 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

#tomwaits #orphans

[alainpruchon]

Big fan from France. I like his voice, the stories he tells, his humanity...

[TOYBOXTHEATRE]

This song can instantly bring you to tears. Tom is so magical. The greatest American singer and songwriter in the History of The World.

[ruthdixon]

a little-known and understated masterpiece.

[laurietongish]

How many bad ass albums does this guy have and it still blows my mind how many people don't know about Tom Waits. He did some of the best interviews with Letterman ever an entertainer in every way.

[michaelscutella]

Beautiful song... From one of the best artists to walk the planet

[longneck]

A truly fantastic song by the Man with the Gravel voice

[TheYlro]

I always loved TW. I started listening in Paris 1989 and been a close friend of mine since then.

[WelfareChrist]

I think this is his best song and kind of need to see him perform it live.

[jonnizzik]

Tom Waits, so utterly real — more real han a circle ever can be iround.

I do not know any other coming even close to this immense originality + beauty + honesty and freedom.

Tom Waits . . . .keep at it, in these scary days . . . you remind FREEDOM perhaps still exhibit — If we just go and get it, ourselves.

[outlook]

From morocco, this song still alive in my room

[talmage_ur]

Those that take the long way home come back wiser because they made it count - - - real riches for all. Knowledge brings freedom. So let's pay attention that is the long way home.
Be well friend x

[ryanbowron]

"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." ❤❤

His staggering genius is almost too much to bear sometimes.

[xerxespamplemousse]

There is no better writer and composer of nostalgia.

[laasjopy]

Linda canción y una voz muy maravilla. ..

[erycleaf]

Tom Waits writes the prettiest songs about the ugliest sides of life.

[erikpeterson]

Starbucks off Jackson Wyoming Town some writing on my laptop one evening some years back....going over notes and comes on 😁

life is good

[johnmoore]

At the tip of the Tom waits iceberg. He certainly has a way with beauty

[TheDiceMan]

@ 00:01:50 I was half expecting the 'closed captions' to read :
(engine purring or Tom Waits humming)

[DjangoWineHeart]

"got a head full of lightning, a hatful of rain"

[lauraclayton]

Heard this on the Armstrong lie documentary I loved the song I need to down load it