Before's closing time is, there's ....

... Many opportunities to hide bury, hide and lose ... in self-pity, sadness, anger and joy!
Undoubtedly, Tom Waits' music is not popular with everyone and if so, anyway not in any mood.
The album> Closing TimeUnd yet! It's just life; what happens to us all, can happen, which Tom Waits says in his songs. Sentimental, suicidal, resigned texts accompanied by equally sentimental sad piano and guitar tones and a saxophone ... because descent duty reason is off! Humming along, mitheulen ...
The unrequited love he sings of love. The driving away of the beloved. The faceless dream woman ... Last but not least Martha ...
I think we can never fully understand his songs; the lyrics are already somewhat confused, possibly autobiographical? But Tom Waits is also known as "hoodwinked" guide.
However ... sometimes ... yes, sometimes you maybe as days on which all this is true, and it is understandable. All these sentimental stories he tells. There are those moments when one understands the sudden everything: that life is a modest (Schei ...) game is ...
And you think, "Wow!" The must know how it feels to be the very bottom but at the top Undoubtedly you can only play these dark songs and sing, if you know the mood and the situation itself...
Closing Time ... from the year 1973, one of his first works. And in my opinion, his best album.
Wen the translation of texts from Waits interested, the album was "After me, the deluge - Ambros sings Waits" by Wolfgang Ambros recommended because Ambros has enough (off) time taken by the songs - of course in his own way, in his ( Vienna) slang, new carry forward / interpret.
Pleasant descent, I wish!
Apiula