Tom Waits - 'Who Are You This Time'

"Who Are You This Time" by Tom Waits from the album 'Bone Machine'

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[lovetheallbeautiful]

One of those songs... after thirty years... always cry. Pure beautiful. Eternal.

[straightcashhomey]

‘Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes’ are probably my favorite lyrics ever

[juliev]

Damn! This song hits hard! "How do your pistol and your bible and your sleeping pills go?" "I fell in love with your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes. You better get down on the floor, don't you know this is war?". These lines are fantastic!! If anyone have ever been together with a cruel and narcissistic lover and been left with a feeling of being laughed at afterwards, this is the song for you.

[leem]

Often come back to this album and especially this song. One of the most imaginative and profound songwriters imo.

[HistoryNerd]

Heart-breaking. Absolutely heart-breaking.

[markolson]

Cuts right to the bone. Every single time I hear it.

[lightaces]

The wild thing about Tom Waits is, if you listen to interviews with him, he just talks like that. You would be excused for thinking his lyrics are the result of hours of hard labor, but it just falls out of his mouth fully formed like that. It’s amazing.

[AnnaSavelxeva]

Одна из любимых песен на все времена...❤❤❤

[PBandJJJJJ]

Just want to inform everyone that this is fantastic stuff!

[tyrondardizian]

They're lining up
To mad dog your tilta whirl
3 shots for a dollar
Win a real live doll
All the lies that you tell
I believed them so well, Take them back,
Take them back to your red house
For that fearful leap into the dark
I did my time
In the jail of your arms
Now Ophelia wants to know
Where she should turn
Tell me... What did you do,
What did you do the last time?
Why don't you do that
Go on ahead and take this the wrong way
Time's not your friend
Do you cry, Do you pray
Do you wish them away
Do you still leave nothing
But bones in the way?
Did you bury the carnival
Lions and all
Excuse me while I sharpen my nails
And just who are you this time?
You look rather tired
Are you pretending to love
Well, I hear that it pays well
How do your pistol and your Bible and
Your sleeping pills go.
Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
Well I fell in love
With your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes.
You better get down on the floor
Don't you know this is war
Tell me who are you this time?
Tell me who are you this time?

[redadamearth]

His wife, Kathleen Brennan never gets enough credit for co-writing his songs. Some of the best lines in his songs are hers.

[pierre-bernardelsig]

Thank you Katherine Brennan (cowriterin) for being with him for a second time in this record

[christianbradfordsmith]

Super job..mrs waits..superb writing? How do you do it..xo

[stephanieramirez]

Who are you Right Now Thomas...? Your songs have never been more precient, mon ami!
The Humans Died Screaming, while i lay dreaming...dreamin of you...

[treid]

"Bone Machine" (simply glancing the album cover art/ seeing "I don't wanna grow up" on Beavis and Butthead around 11years of age ETC.) the theme was The Devil, but not the strictly biblical Lucifer, but rather a combination between that and a Bukowski-esque caricature. It's clear Tom had this in mind, so this song, literally is the devil begging a continuously returning Christ (all different shapes and sizes) to announce himself, asap, while knowing he can never win, just continuously search for a Messiah he can never destroy. Brilliant idea by Tom to sing from the Devil's perspective... Reminds me of a Dostoevsky character (myshkin, alyosha, etc.)

[MAllen-ngpl]

This could have come off “greetings from asbury park” in 1973.

[christianbradfordsmith]

Can I ever come out and say hello to the world? Xo

[Prato]

I’ve been a Waits fan my whole life. I’m having a little trouble deciphering the meaning of this song. May someone explain it to me?

[bernadettewunder]

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes....

[batonbe]

pardon me while i sharpen my nails. kkkk