Tom Waits - 'New Year's Eve'

"New Year's Eve" by Tom Waits from the album 'Bad As Me'

Lyrics

The door was open I was seething
Your mother burst in it was freezing
She said it looks like it’s trying to rain
I was lost I felt sea sick
You convinced me that he’d left
You said keep talking but don’t use any names
I scolded your driver and your brother
We are old enough to know how long you’ve been hooked
And we’ve all been through the war
And each time you score
Someone gets hauled and handcuffed and booked
It felt like four in the morning
What sounded like fire works
Turned out to be just what it was
The stars looked like diamonds
Then came the sirens
And everyone started to cuss
All the noise was disturbing
And I couldn’t find Irving
It was like two stations on at the same time
And then I hid your car keys
And I made black coffee
And I dumped out the rest of the rum
Nick and Socorro broke up
And Candice wouldn’t shut up
Fin he recorded the whole thing
Ray he said damn you
And someone broke my camera
And it was New Years
And we all started to sing
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne
I was leaving in the morning with Charles for Las Vegas
And I didn’t plan to come back
I had only a few things
Two hundred dollars
And my records in a brown paper sack
I ran out on Sheila
Everything’s in storage
Calvin’s right I should go back to driving truck
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne

#tomwaits #badasme

[shangdangshugga]

2 more min midnight. Had to throw this on. Happy New years everyone!

[alexjeffrey]

Tom Waits has been there for me when no one else has been. He’ll never read this but damn it I need my internet validation. Have a good new year everyone!!!

[lesevans]

Whenever I wanted the house to myself. I'd turn up Tom Waites. Now I wish some of em would just drop in once and awhile. Happy New Year Tom. We've spent so many together.

[lindagarland]

Can't bring in the New Year without this great song. Thanks Tom.

[philmcgrady]

Cant wait to blast this in a few days…oh hell I’ll blast it right now!

[LemonTree]

It was like two stations on at the same time...gets me each listen

[mindbodylightsound]

I listen to this every New Years and burn one at midnight

[couplakooks]

Happy new year, you beautiful bums.
Addendum: Let's try not to die this year.

[erictorres]

This song is just so I can put this on repeat till I'm pSsed out

[MSYNGWIE]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TOM, TO YOU AND YOURS, HUGS FOR YEARS OF GREAT MUSIC AND HUMOUR AND MAKE MORE FILMS, LOVE YOU namasteZ

[paulroman]

Still 2020 here, but happy 2021 to all you future folks!

[davehigdin]

Happy New Year! The song is both relatable and not. I know these things didnt happen to me but it still reminds me of new years in my early 20's. It's like two memories going on at the same time. Love the romantic reminiscence of such unpleasant things like hauled in handcuffed and booked. Great song. For all the things happening in this persons life atleast he has a good support network of so many freinds, think twice about going to back to truck driving.

[Jnnacyde]

happy new years from ohio~ thanks tom 💕

[zarras]

Wow this was like prophesy in revers recalled by an eves dropping eye

[yetirobot]

Happy new year!!! Hopefully 2021 isn't a dumpster fire like 2020.

[ChrisMiller-vcgn]

In memory of Justin McBride. Tears roll whenever I play this song. 🙏

[the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

“Old Time Sake”
Our days stacked up like paper plates with spaghetti sauce and pizza crusts now we’re scattered around like seeds from a tree they call life by the largest bird Time ever seen and as she swoops to her roost and she feasts on the fruit we sank into the soil and waited with wonder and some with doubt for the sky to cry on us.
Should old acquaintance be forgot and surface time to time these free birds chirp and swoop and lull away, away from thine.
Old, Long, Since…
New, Short, yet…
I know this life is sweet I’m just done with the rind.
, dan’

[CptEtgar]

i'll bet Waits meant that people steal from him trough the internet when "Bad as Me" went out by saying about the internet users "A few bad apples" . Tom & Kath should get a Nobel as well.

[the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

“Shrunken Charlie Bucket wasn’t saw so he said fuck it and spent the rest of his days queer in women’s changing rooms and died but accidentally on a drop of spilt malt whiskey he was so drunk he thought ‘twas beer.”
, dan’

[warlockgraves]

I am the only being worthy of commenting on this masterpiece