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- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
- Jersey Girl
- Hold On
- Chocolate Jesus
- Green Grass
- Underground
- Hell Broke Luce
- Jockey Full Of Bourbon
- Lucinda
- Picture In a Frame
- Alice
- All The World Is Green
- Broken Bicycles
- Dead And Lovely
- Foreign Affair
- I Beg Your Pardon
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
- Lucky Day
- More Than Rain
- Old Shoes
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- Telephone Call From Istanbul
- Time
- Virginia Avenue
- We're All Mad Here
- ...but There's Never A Rose
- 'Til The Money Runs Out
- $29,00
- 16 Shells From A 30.6
- 2.19
- 29 Dollars
- 9th & Hennepin
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- A Little Rain
- A Sigh For Sore Eyes
- A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun Lyrics
- Adios Lounge
- After You Die
- Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
- All Stripped Down
- All The Time
- Altar Boy
- Annie's Back In Town
- Another Man's Vine
- Anywhere I Lay My Head
- Apartment For Rent
- Army Ants
- Baby Gonna Leave Me
- Back In The Crowd
- Back In The Good Old World
- Bad As Me
- Bad Liver And A Broken Heart
- Barber Shop
- Barcarolle
- Bend Down The Branches
- Better Off Without A Wife
- Big Black Mariah
- Big In Japan
- Big Joe And Phantom
- Black Market Baby
- Black Wings
- Blind Love
- Blow Wind Blow
- Blue Skies
- Blue Valentine
- Books Of Moses
- Bottom Of The World
- Burma Shave
- Buzz Fledderjohn
- Cemetery Polka
- Chicago
- Children's Story
- Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
- Circus
- Clang Boom Steam
- Clap Hands
- Cold Cold Ground
- Cold Water
- Come On Up To The House
- Coney Island Baby
- Crossroads
- Danny Says
- Day After Tomorrow
- Depot, Depot
- Diamonds And Gold
- Diamonds On My Windshield
- Dirt In The Ground
- Dog Door
- Don't Go Into That Barn
- Down There By The Train
- Down, Down, Down
- Downtown
- Downtown Train
- Drunk On The Moon
- Earth Died Screaming
- Eggs And Sausage
- Emotional Weather
- Everything Goes To Hell
- Everything You Can Think
- Eyeball Kid
- Face To The Highway
- Falling Down
- Fannin Street
- Filipino Box Spring Hog
- First Kiss
- Fish & Bird
- Fish In The Jailhouse
- Flash Pan Hunter
- Flowers Grave
- Frank's Song
- Frank's Theme
- Franks Wild Years
- Fumblin' With The Blues
- Georgia Lee
- Get Behind The Mule
- Get Lost
- Gin Soaked Boy
- God's Away On Business
- Goin' Out West
- Going Down Slow
- Good Old World
- Goodnight Irene
- Gospel Train
- Grapefruit Moon
- Gun Street Girl
- Had Me A Girl
- Hang Down Your Head
- Hang On St. Christopher
- Heartattack And Vine
- Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs' Marching Song)
- Hoist That Rag
- Home I'll Never Be
- House Where Nobody Lives
- How's It Gonna End
- I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
- I Never Talk To Strangers
- I Want You
- I Wish I Was In New Orleans
- I'll Be Gone
- I'll Shoot The Moon
- I'll Take New York
- I'm Still Here
- I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
- Ice Cream Man
- If I Have To Go
- In Between Love
- In The Colosseum
- In The Neighborhood
- In The Neighbourhood
- Innocent When You Dream
- Invitation To The Blues
- Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream
- It's Over
- Jack And Neal
- Jayne's Blue Wish
- Jesus Gonna Be Here
- Jitterbug Boy
- Jitterburg Boys
- Johnsburg, Illinois
- Just The Right Bullets
- Kentuchy Avenue
- Kentucky Avenue
- King Kong
- Kiss Me
- Last Leaf
- Let Me Get Up On It
- Lie To Me
- Little Boy Blue
- Little Drop Of Poison
- Little Man
- Little Trip To Heaven
- Lonely
- Long Way Home
- Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again
- Lord I've Been Changed
- Lost In The Harbour
- LowDown
- Lowside Of The Road
- Lucky Day Overture
- Lullaby
- Make It Rain
- Martha
- Metropolitan Glide
- Midnight Lullaby
- Misery Is The River Of The World
- Mockin' Bird
- Mr. Siegal
- Murder In The Red Barn
- Muriel
- Never Let Go
- New Coat of Paint
- New Year's Eve
- Nighthawk Postcards
- Nirvana
- No One Knows I'm Gone
- Nobody
- November
- Ol' 55
- Old Boyfriends
- On A Foggy Night
- On The Nickel
- Once Upon a Town
- Pasties And A G-String
- Pay Me
- Picking Up After You
- Please Call Me, Baby
- Please Wake Me Up
- Please, Call-me, Baby
- Poncho's Lament
- Pony
- Poor Edward
- Poor Little Lamb
- Potter's Field
- Putnam Country
- Putnam County
- Puttin' On The Dog
- Rain Dogs
- Rains On Me
- Raised Right Men
- Red Shoes By The Drugstore
- Reeperbahn
- Road To Peace
- Rockin Chair
- Rosie
- Ruby's Arms
- San Diego's Serenade
- Satisfied
- Saving All My Love For You
- Sea Of Love
- Semi Suite
- Shake It
- She Stole The Blush
- Shiny Things
- Shiver Me Timbers
- Shore Leave
- Silent Night
- Singapore
- Sins Of My Father
- Small Change
- So It Goes
- So Long I'll See Ya
- Soldier's Things
- Somewhere
- Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
- Spidey's Wild Ride
- Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
- Step Right Up
- Story
- Straight To The Top
- Strange Weather
- Such A Scream
- Swordfishtrombone
- Swordfishtrombones
- T'aint No Sin
- Table Top Joe
- Take Care Of All My Children
- Take It With Me
- Take Me Home
- Talking At The Same Time
- Tango 'til They're Sore
- Tell It To Me
- Tell Me
- Temptation
- That Feel
- That's The Way
- The Black Rider
- The Briar And The Rose
- The Fall Of Troy
- The Ghosts Of Saturday Night
- The Heart Of Saturday Night
- The Last Rose of Summer
- The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
- The One That Got Away
- The Other Side Of The World
- The Part You Throw Away
- The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
- The Pontiac
- The Return Of Jackie And Judy
- The Wages Of Love
- The World Keeps Turning
- This One's From The Heart
- Tom Traubert's Blues
- Top Of The Hill
- Town With No Cheer
- Train Song
- Trampled Rose
- Troubles Braids
- Two Sisters
- Union Square
- Virginia Ave
- Walk Away
- Walking Spanish
- Warm Beer And Cold Women
- Watch Her Disappear
- Way Down In The Hole
- What A Wonderful World
- What Keeps Mankind Alive
- What's He Building?
- When You Ain't Got Nobody
- Whisling Past The Graveyard
- Whistle Down The Wind
- Who Are You
- Widow's Grove
- Woe
- Wrong Side Of The Road
- Yesterday Is Here
- You Can Never Hold Back Spring
- You Can't Unring a Bell
- Young At Heart
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music.
Tom Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His debut album was Closing Time (1973), followed by The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) and Nighthawks at the Diner (1975). He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe and Japan, and found greater critical and commercial success with Small Change (1976), Blue Valentine (1978) and Heartattack and Vine (1980). During this period, Waits entered the world of film, acting in Paradise Alley (1978), where he met Kathleen Brennan.
In 1980, Waits married Brennan, split from his manager and record label, and moved to New York City. With Brennan's encouragement and frequent collaboration, he pursued a more eclectic and experimental sound influenced by Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart, as heard on the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987). In 1990 he started his collaboration with stage director Robert Wilson and wrote the music for the musical The Black Rider, the songs for which were released on the album The Black Rider. Waits and Wilson collaborated again on the musicals Alice in 1992 and Woyzeck in 2000. In 2002, the songs from them were released on the albums Alice and Blood Money. Waits' 1992 album Bone Machine and 1999's Mule Variations won Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Contemporary Folk Album. Waits went on to release Real Gone (2004), the compilation Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006), the live album Glitter and Doom Live (2009) and Bad as Me (2011).
Waits has influenced many artists and gained an international cult following. His songs have been covered by Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos, Rod Stewart and the Eagles and he has written songs for Johnny Cash and Norah Jones, among others. In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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