Tom Waits - "Burma-Shave"
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"Burma-Shave" by Tom Waits from the album 'Foreign Affairs'
Lyrics
licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders
of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks
and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through
he was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave
hut tile cops would never think to look in
burma shave
and the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone
he didn’t seem to be like any guy she’d ever known
he kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back
she says i’m a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
how far are you going he said depends on what you mean
he says i’m only stoppin’ here to get some gasoline
i guess i’m going thataway just as long as it’s paved
i guess you’d say i’m on my way to
burma shave
and her knees up on the glove compartment
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
and she popped her gum and arched her back
hell marysville ain’t nothing but a wide spot in the road
some night my heart pounds just like thunder
i don’t know why it don’t explode
cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave
and i’d rather take my chances out in
burma shave
presley’s what i go by why don’t you change the station
count the grain elevators in the review mirror
mister anywhere you point this thing
has got to beat the hell out of the sting
of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin
and so drill me a hole with a barber pole
i’m jumping my every just like a fugitive tonight
why don’t you have another swig
and pass that car if you’re so brave
i wanna get there before the sun comes up in
burma shave
and the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
just a nickel’s worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
lie swindled from them on the way to
burma shave
and the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
up against the car door on the shot gun side
and when they pulled her from the wreck you know she
still had on her shades
they say that dreams are growing wild just this side of
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This is one of my favorites. Tom Waits is such a poet. "The dreams are growing wild ... " It's so vivid. You feel the hopelessness, recklessness, desire to escape. It kills me when he sings, "When they pulled her from the wreck, she still had on her shades". I love good music, but Tom touches my soul. He's a true Renaissance man.
Totally agree with you. He's one of them Who i listen a dozen twice cup
For sure! Great stuff
This is one of his songs you don't just listen to. You close your eyes and watch it. It's that good.
Definitely
I'm old enough to remember the burma shave signs on the highways
They are still there, west of Flagstaff on the old I66
Who asked?
"took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer" I love this lyric....
"Then she popped her gum, and arched her back."
She popped her gum, arched her backed
to say that you're own your way to a place that may or may not exist is 'genius'
Burma Shave was an old advertising campaign. The little signs on the highway nothing to do with an actual place, and it was just a slick cheap way to sell a common necessity.
My favorite Waits album. But then again they're all good.
When that trumpet comes in right near the end....awesome.👍IMO, this entire album is one of tom's very best, just maybe a tiny bit less great than small change but still WAY up there.
So brilliant for so many reasons. American genius.
Even among Tom's usual lyrical excellence, this one's special.
It has a quality all its own.
(like Red Shoes / Hell broke Luce / Shore Leave / Kentucky Avenue etc.....All have their own special world inside the music)
Damm I love this song
Thank you Tom....at the moment I realy have nothing to add...just thanks for your your art it's beautiful
I can listen to this song over and over. No real verse/chorus per se, but It is absolutely brilliant. Like watching an old tragic movie. Unbelievable. Genius cannot be denied. I have tried to come up with a guitar arrangement, but it has to played on the piano. Dropping... Gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow. :)
A movie in a song.
Art
No better writer of songs or poetry than Tom Waits. A master of imagery. No one can do it like him. Always find funny when people name dylan as our greatest poet.
Close but no cigar, bob.
His wife wrote many of the lyrics
In a previous incarnation I was a drifter... and this is my story...
But I only realized that when I heard Tom tell it......
Thank you Tom
I finally figured out what this song is about: a girl taking a ride falls in love at first sight, the man says everything she ever dreamed of, they both hatch a plan to leave each other's lover and run away together, suddenly they get in a collision and they both died.
I don't know if they even know each other very well, but he's a way out of this stinkin' town.
- "How far are you goin' ?"
- ... said, "Depends on what you mean."
Until just now when seeing your comment I realized that line has gone past me many times without proper consideration...thanks for bringing it to my attention 👍
@@robertcronin6603 Glad you vibed to that too! Curious: Before you were reminded of that one, what was your favorite line?
This and Muriel
Are my favorites from this one.
What do you think of Martha and Tom Traubert's Blues?
A Foreign Affair, the title tune is also oeefection. And Barbershop.
Good call on "Muriel."
One of TW best, this is human poetry
It's his best of many great songs
GENIUS
He used to have a “ thing “ with Rickie Lee Jones. A great poetic song.
❤️
I remember reading that's Rickie Lee Jones on the cover with Tom.
Its not. Its a girl that had a thing for him who worked as a waitress in a diner he frequented. Rickie Lee is the girl on the covervof Blue Valintine. His album after this one.They were in a relationship for years🙂
@@johnswan6759
Yeah, thanks.
I just read an article that told me otherwise, too. According to zambosplace.blogspot, it's Marsheila Cockrel, the then cashier of The Troubadour.
Rikki's on the back cover of "Blue Valentine."
@@marktosh3739 👍👍
@@johnswan6759
Hah, thanks again !
Belle de ballade à deux où bien seul(e)
Just nice
I wonder if One Eyed Jacks was taken from here and put into Twin Peaks?
this song (and Tom's songs often) really have the same sense of desperate, trapped teenage romaticism of nowheresville America at night as you see in Lynch's work.
(Paricularly the full movie pilot episode of Twin Peaks season 1, from 1990 - Which also works as a stand alone Lynch movie)
- And, of course, his phrase 'Blue Ruin' (from 9th and Hennepin - Rain Dogs) was recently turned into a fantastic, powerful-hitting movie, about all those 'righteous revenge' tropes you see in (sometimes enjoyable) hack filmscripts,
but how it'd turn out if they were real people / places / tragedy, instead of Hollywood-ized masculine fantasy fodder.
That movie really hit me hard, after all the decades of watching the manchild fantasy versions of it, in other movies.
- Anyway, it's nice to know Tom's name / work is still being represented with quality work elsewhere. 😺_👍
I'm from Marysville. Not much has changed.
I'm from Marysville CA. It hasn't changed much at all.
AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
"(saxophone solo)" you say?
"...made from ingredients as described as having come from the Malay Peninsula and Burma." I'm in the middle here in Thailand near where some kids got trapped in a cave and tomorrow I'm off to work and I'm in need of a...
❤❤❤
Sacramento
Under 1k likes on this. Silly humans.
I 'm from Burma.
BEAT
4:53
Hwy 49
Billie holiday
Anybody have an input on the section that says: And so build me a hole, with a barber pole 💈 “
I’m assuming it’s Presley saying that because of the “And so” … Fits right in where just before this she states “…of going to bed with every dream that dies here every morning”
It could be him though.
Any thoughts on who says it and what “drill me a hole with a barber pole” means - with respect to the story.
Thank you, much love
It’s his passenger. Shortly before that part it says “she said… “ As for the meaning, I think it’s just as simple as the spiral of a barber shop pole resembling the spiral on a drill bit. And a barber pole would have been an outdated feature of the kind of small town she was fleeing.
@@darwinsaye good interpretation 👍
An old beatnik expression
Scarlett Johansson's favorite song and of course, mine.
Thank you Tom