Tom Waits - 'The Ocean Doesn't Want Me'

"The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" by Tom Waits from the album 'Bone Machine'

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[hightreestess]

This is one of those certain Tom Waits tunes that just satisfies a certain mood.

[beachcomber]

I had this as my answering message on my home phone. The parents were not real cool with it. "the riptide is raging and the life guards away" CHILLS

[brianrappleye]

Tom Waits represents all of the things we never talk about because it hurts

[tyrondardizian]

The ocean doesn't want me today
But I'll be back tomorrow to play
And the strangels will take me
Down deep in their brine
The mischievous braingels
Down into the endless blue wine
I'll open my head and let out
All of my time
I'd love to go drowning
And to stay and to stay
But the ocean doesn't want me today
I'll go in up to here
It can't possibly hurt
All they will find is my beer
And my shirt
A rip tide is raging
And the life guard is away
But the ocean doesn't want me today
The ocean doesn't want me today

[nickanddeb]

I played this song for a friend once. He removed and slammed down the headphones. It really shook him up.

[audreymcadams]

Underrated as one of his creepiest songs.

[ileezamotherofrain]

This guy's stuff has dragged me through things. Helped me so much.

[meatbeast]

Got my beer & my shirt... gonna head down to the ocean & hang with the strangels & braingels...

[anthonyfitzgerald]

Yesterday is gone that comes before tomorrow that makes it today, time to play . In the stay and the stay . The ocean wants me today

[dixieboy]

Whats he building in there ? I want to know.... I need to know ....I want to know