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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2020
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"Invitation To The Blues" by Tom Waits from the album 'Small Change'
Lyrics
Well she's up against the register
with an apron and a spatula
with yesterday's deliveries
and the tickets for the bachelors
she's a moving violation
from her conk down to her shoes
but it's just an invitation to the blues
and you feel just like Cagney
looks like Rita Hayworth
at the counter of the Schwab's Drugstore
you wonder if she might be single
she's a loner likes to mingle
got to be patient and pick up a clue
she says howyougonnalikem,
over medium or scrambled
anyways the only way
be careful not to gamble
on a guy with a suitcase
and a ticket gettin out of here
it's a tired bus station
and an old pair of shoes
but it ain't nothin but an
invitation to the blues
but you can't take your eyes off her
get another cup of java
and it's just the way she pours it for you
jokin with the customers
and it's mercy mercy Mr. Percy
there ain't nothin back in Jersey
but a broken down jalopy of a
man I left behind
and a dream that I was chasin
and a battle with the booze
and an open invitation to the blues
but she's had a sugar daddy
and a candy apple caddy
and a bank account and everything
accustom to the finer things
he probably left her for a socialite and
he didn't love her cept at night
and then he's drunk and never
even told her that he cared
So they took the registration
and the car keys and her shoes
and left her with an invitation
to the blues
but there's a Continental Trailways leaving
local bus tonight, good evening
you can have my seat
I'm stickin round here for awhile
get me a room at the Squire
and the fillin station's hirin
I can eat here every night, what the hell have I got to lose
got a crazy sensation
go or stay, and I've got to choose
and I'll accept your invitation
to the blues
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It's 12:38 am and I'm sitting here with a bourbon and this sounds as good as it did when I first heard it in 1979 or so!
Bourbon taste just as good? After all these years I know it tastes better!
Was probly 1981 for me..Tucson AZ ... my girl at the time was working at a strip club ..a coworker of hers had an old man name of reno ..he was hells angel and a tattoo artist ... one night he says ...ya gotta hear Tom waits .I.. I've been listening ever since
So I guess you could say ..I accepted his invitation to the blues ...
I'll see your 12:38 a.m. and glass of bourbon with 3:30 a.m. and a cup of joe - 1979 sounds about right - much love and respect
I turned 8 the day this album came out, in 1976. My father bought the album and played it for me not long after. It was amazing then, and it still is.
Heard this when I was 17. Game over. Bought everything up until this one and every album since. Saw him live twice.
I'm jealous, I wish I'd seen him live. If he goes on tour again I'm taking a sabbatical and following him around!
I did, too.
Saw him in London, Hammersmith Odeon. Sheer genius, simplest and best set I've seen. Spellbinding!
Only one in Tulsa ok and it was changed my life
I was 27. Saw him do this live twice as well. 😢
Now, I’m just saying, but this might be one of the coolest songs ever written and recorded.
My favourite Tom Waits song, the tune/mood/atmosphere is amazing.
1940’s film noir without the film.
You don’t need bourbon to feel the blues of this song, genius authentic song.
The best.... a little movie that always makes me cry.
An entire movie in these lyrics.
Fwiw, film noir critic Eddie Muller suggests that the 1945 movie, Fallen Angel, may have inspired Tom to write this song. Of course it fits well into Tom's body of work but if you watch the movie it does fit well with the plot.
The best music is the one that will find you, not the other way around. When you get tired of modern trends, that’s when the journey can truly begin. GOOD music saves lives.
That is an amazing poetic comment
I might have to write it down
Thank you
This song knocks me out EVERY TIME I hear it. But this happens so much with Tom, I’m just in awe all over again over his lyrical and musical artistry. An absolute genius and king 👑
listening to tom's songs is like going in little adventures in the past
Timeless
Adventures in my past that never happened in the first place.
Absolutely.
I was 27 when I first heard this song. It felt like it was the song I had been searching for since I was a kid. Thank you Tom for your music that saved many lives.
Well put
Anytime I'm feeling depressed, I just drink and listen to tom waits super loud. Always does the trick
It’s funny how the depressants (booze) plus depressing music cancels out the depression perfectly 😂
@jacobnipp6349 It is isn't it? It's what I'm doing here right now
@@YobigjakeI feel like it’s just reassuring to see that people have felt that way and made it through, also bros a legend
@@Yobigjake Booze works, until it doesn't
😊👍👍👍
First time I´ve heard this song I was down, on the bottom. And this song showed me hundreds levels below the bottom...But I was not alone anymore. Never. It´s following me. It´s hugging me. I am not alone...
I sold my 1,400 vinyl collection a couple years ago and I think this is the one I miss the most. Saw him live once in Austin. Just genius
I'd give anything to see him live.
It was surprising and wonderful. I think he opened with the piano has been drinking. Just 1/2 of a 57 Chevy, a new Orleans streetlight, piano and microphone. Perfect
Sorry for your loss. ❤️😭
You can feel and relate to the washed up exhaustion of both narrator and subject.
Brilliantly done.
Beautiful comment.
Every time that I listen to this song, I am fighting tears. If I drop my guard, my face is wet with tears. This song leaves me overwhelmed with empathy for men. If I had a daughter, I would teach her to listen to this song with her whole heart engaged.
Ничего ни отнять ни добавить! 100% блюз - бурбон с депрессией без льда ! Каждая эмоция на своём месте, никто не смог это спеть лучше.
The bowed double bass and little saxophone flourishes are exquisite touches to this already amazing song.
No one else can do anything like that but Tom Waits but kudos to Bones Howe and Bob Alcivar for that amazing orchestration.
...one of the main reasons I have spent the last 11 years trying to learn to play the piano.
Recieved, lost and sent again and again. Growing up doesn't stop, life is an open invitation.. and some times songs are a timeless portrait.
This is among his finest compositions. Just a great piece of art from a consummate pro.
Gorgeous, heartfelt, impossibly bittersweet.
A classic. Period.
Mi Inchinerò Per Sempre..
Великолепный вокал ! Браво !
What a song! Great musician with the best voice ever!!!
I heard "Step Right Up" on the Doctor Demento Show and check this disk out of the library. But once I hear this song, I was hooked and have never turned back. Saw him live in Boston at the Harvard Square theater in '79. I'll admit I'm a bigger fan of his L.A. stuff, but I'm still all in for everything. Thanks, Tommy!
So evocative. Favourite song from this brilliant album.
The amazing thing is...he was only like 25 when he wrote this.
Masterpiece
what a great song,
turning 55 next month. Love when it was grand.
2021 and I'm always coming home to St. Tom, i'm not even sad right now and goddamn this song gets me
@Tom Waits #tomwaits You were mentioned along with this song on Noir Alley on TCM last night. I was very pleasantly surprised. Hope you and yours are well during this pandemic.
I used to drive a cab in Phx, this sounds best at 3am with a smelly nssty drunk in the back, a cool starry night, with all the stars out.
And still 100 degrees at 3AM. 🥵
And raining!
With a Haboob coming!!
What a gemmmm
Brings back memories
This song if from another planet...
One of my favorites
'say any way's the only way'
Best line ever
I feel like I'm in this diner, slowly falling in love with this waitress.
First I heard of Tom was in Amsterdam about 1979-80. He was performing and my Aussie friend lent me this album and that was it, I was hooked. Brilliant and make sure you check out who backs him on these insanely provocative tunes.
genius! this is a great film as I see it.
You're all invited
But only the lonely get in...
How lonely should i be to get in?
Bravo
You're in
My life done so eloquently!
Thanks for sharing!
One of my favorite songs. Thanks, Tom.
Bravo!!!!!!!
But a broken down jalopy of a man I left behind. And a dream I was chasin, a battle with booze and an open invitation to the blues.
100% Excellent!!!
His best song. How are there 6 dislikes?
Absolutely and deeply love and enjoy this song, I couldn't tell you how many many times I've listened to it, but I could never pick a favourite or a best of TW's songs; mainly depends of where my thoughts and moods are at when listening to a certain TW song. Recently I've been obsessed with "I'll be gone".
They wasn't invited
This was their first time experiencing heartbreak
Opinions are like assholes,everyone has one and some of them fucking stink.
This song makes me wanna drink even tho i dont
Disturbingly haunting
💕 🔥. Tom Waits 🔥💕
💕 🔥. Truth 4 many 🔥💕
"I only write two kinds of songs: Grim reapers and grand weepers."-Tom Waits
St. Tom Waits.
wow its really cool demn
This is the song i want to hear when im in a dark dingy smoke filled bar with a glass of whiskey.
big george Big Time of a Nation with blues
Everyone knows Tom Waits, but nobody knows what he's waiting for.
одна из лучших песен в музыке
Worked well with the opening credits in the 1980 Nicolas Roeg movie 'Bad Timing'
That’s where I first heard this song. Works well with Vienna and the Belvedere and the camera lingering over a couple in front of a Klimt.
This is my funeral song
For me, it will be Tango til they’re sore
WAITS!!!
July 24 2024 Houston Tx
I'm pretty sure I did write those lyrics. I know I didn't but I'm aslo pretty sure I did.
Tom, come to Phoenix during Haboob season, youll be inspired.
I always lose it at the end when he gives the waitress his bus ticket.
I think he's offering the ticket to anyone; he sticking around, wants to be around her...he's 'accepting the invitation' to the blues WITH her.
Virginia doubting the blues clarence of supreme blues
Gustav Klimt.
anyways the only way
💙
I feel like I've been through something like this with women in my past
He doesn’t love me
Check out the earth died screaming from bone machine...
✊🏿🫶🏾🫶🏾♉️🥰🥰🥰🥰🫶🏾
it’s like the man wants to be a door prize to beautiful waitress every man’s had this dream
I got a crush on my waitress.
pissa
Does Tom owe something to Louis or what?
Edit: That's an American archetype if I've ever heard one.
Just heard this watching 'Bad Timing'. It's so terrible I thought it had to be Dylan, but I was surprised he already sounded that bad by 1980. Why in god's name would anyone want to sound like this?