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Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl; his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville; and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Short Cuts. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Wikipedia

Tom Waits - Black Wings

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(Tom Waits/K. Brennan) Take an eye for an eye Take a tooth for a tooth Just like they say in the Bible Never leave a trace or forget a face Of any man at the table When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger Sharp enough to draw blood from a stone He rides through your dreams on a coach And horses and the fence posts In the midnight look like bones		Well they've stopped trying to hold him With mortar, stone and chain He broke out of every prison Boots mount the staircase The door is flung back open He's not there for he has risen He's not there for he has risen
Well he once killed a man with a guitar string He's been seen at the table with kings Well he once saved a baby from drowning There are those who say beneath his coat there are wings Some say they fear him Others admire him Because he steals his promise One look in his eye Everyone denies Ever having met him Ever having met him		He can turn himself into a stranger Wel lthey broke a lot of canes on his hide he was born away in a cornfield A fever beats in his head like a drum inside Some say they fear him Others admire him Because he steals his promise One look in his eye Everyone denies Ever having met him Ever having met him

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Tom Waits - I Wish I Was in New Orleans

Tom Waits - Blue Valentines

Tom Waits - Underground

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Tom Waits - Old Shoes

Tom Waits - Russian Dance

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head

Tom Waits - Alice

Tom Waits - Just the Right Bullets

Tom Waits - Singapore

Tom Waits - Somewhere

Tom Waits - Shore Leave

Tom Waits - Better Off Without a Wife

Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream

Tom Waits - Clap Hands

Tom Waits - Walking Spanish

Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul

Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis

Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding

Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade

Tom Waits - All the World Is Green

Tom Waits - Red Shoes By the Drugstore

Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road

Tom Waits - Warm Beer and Cold Women

Tom Waits - Invitation to the Blues

Tom Waits - Murder in the Red Barn

Tom Waits - The One That Got Away

Tom Waits - Small Change

Tom Waits - Hang on St. Christopher

Tom Waits - Semi Suite

Tom Waits - Rainbirds

Tom Waits - In the Neighborhood

Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night

Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles

Tom Waits - That Feel

Tom Waits - Green Grass

Tom Waits - Goin' Out West

Tom Waits - Temptation

Tom Waits - Barber Shop

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Tom Waits - A Sight for Sore Eyes

Tom Waits - Road to Peace

Tom Waits - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Tom Waits - Whistle Down the Wind

Tom Waits - Black Wings

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