Tom Waits - On The Nickel (Austin - 1978)

Tom Wait's voice is incredibly subtle. Sometimes it is roaring like a thunder, and then, when the last drops of rain have fallen into the grass, we hear like a bird whose singing deeply cures the heart. Then we can sleep peacefully. / La voix de Tom Waits est incroyablement subtile. Parfois elle gronde comme le tonnerre, puis, une fois que les dernières gouttes de pluie se sont infiltrées dans l'herbe, on entend comme la voix d'un oiseau dont le chant guérit profondément le coeur. Alors, on peut s'endormir en paix.

“So what becomes of all the little boys, who run away from home, well the

world just keeps gettin' bigger, once you get out on your own, so here's to

all the little boys, the sandman takes you where, you'll be sleepin' with a

pillowman, on the nickel over there.

So let's climb up through that button hole, and we'll fall right up the

stairs, and i'll show you where the short dogs grow, on the nickel over there.”

Tom Waits en 1975 pour le Live at the Troubadour, West Hollywood