domenica 7 agosto 2011

Cold Water

Tom Waits

Well I woke up this morning

With the cold water

Woke up this morning

With the cold water

With the cold

Police at the station

And they don't look friendly

Well they don't look friendly

Police at the station

And they don't look friendly

They don't look friendly well

They don't

Blind or crippled

Sharp or dull

I'm reading the Bible

By a 40 watt bulb

What price freedom

Dirt is my rug

Well I sleep like a baby

With the snakes and the bugs

Well the stores are open

But I ain't got no money

I ain't got no money

Stores are open but I

Ain't got no money

Well I ain't

Found an old dog

And he seems to like me

Seems to like me

Well he seems to like me

Found an old dog and he

Seems to like me

Well he seems

Seen them fellows

with the card board signs

Scrapin up a little $

To buy a bottle of wine

Pregnant women and

The Vietnam vets I say

Beggin on the freeway

Bout as hard as it gets

Well I slept in the graveyard

It was cool and still

Cool and still

It was cool and still

Slept in the graveyard

It was cool and still

Cool and still and it

Was cool

Slept all night in the Cedar grove

I was born to ramble

Born to rove

Some men are searchin for the

Holy Grail

But there ain't nothin sweeter

Than ridin the rails

I LOOK 47 but I'm 24

Well they shooed me away

From here the time before

Turned there their backs

And they locked their doors

I'm watching T.V. in

The window of a furniture store

Well I woke up this morning

With the cold water

Woke up this morning

With the cold water

With the cold

Pesciolini....

pescioloni......

Fish in the jailhouse

Tom Waits

Peoria Johnson told Dirty Ol' Joe

I can break out of any old jail, you know

The bars are iron, the walls are stone

All I need me is an old fishbone

Fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse

Fish in the jailhouse tonight

hammerhead shark

Well, a steelhead salmon or a mud bank carp

I said, one side dull, and then the other side sharp

And on Saturday night I'll be in Central Park

Fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse

Fish in the jailhouse tonight

Ask Little Slow Jackson, on a forty-four trip

Ask Whipperfield Farraday, ask what I did

From the jail to the city, there's a rollin' fog

From Natchez to Kenosha, runnin' down to New York

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight

All right (all right), oh boy (oh boy)

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight

All right (all right), oh boy (oh boy)

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight

All right (all right), oh boy (oh boy)

They're serving fish in the jailhouse

Fish in the jailhouse tonight

Fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy

They're serving fish in the jailhouse

Fish in the jailhouse tonight

Chi non mi conosce...

mi dedica canzoni...

chi mi conosce non mi dedica per niente....

Irene da "Riflessioni estemporanee"

Goodnight Irene

Tom Waits

Irene, goodnight Irene, goodnight

Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Irene

I'll see you in my dreams

Last Saturday night I got married

Me and my wife settled down

Now, me and my wife are parted

Gonna take a little stroll downtown

Yeah, sometimes I live in the country

And sometimes I live in town

Yeah, and sometimes I take a great notion

I'm gonna jump in the river and drown

Stop ramblin' Stop that gamblin'

Stop staying out late at night

Go home to your wife and family

Stay there by the fireside, bright

Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Irene

I'll see you in my dreams

Capisco e...

non capisco il linguaggio dell'Universo...

Ma d'altronde sono i fatti che contano

la terra è sotto i miei piedi così come il cielo mi sovrasta

l'acqua dei fiumi scorre verso il mare e non verso la montagna

la pioggia cade sulla terra e la gravità terrestre ci trattiene sulla terra

il vuoto è vuoto

il pieno è pieno

"il sole e la luna mostrano al mondo ciò che un dito non può celare"

la stella polare è punto di riferimento

non si doma il vento

non si trattiene il tempo

l'infinito è nostra dimora

il vero è vero

il falso e falso

la terra è viva

il mare respira

condividiamo l'aria, l'acqua, la vita

gramigna soffoca la terra.

Irene da "Giardinaggio attivo"

It's Alright With Me

Tom Waits

It's the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face
It's not her face, but such a charming face
That it's all right with me

It's the wrong song in the wrong style
Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile
It's not her smile, but a lovely smile
And it's all right with me

You can not know how happy I am we met
I'm strangely attracted to you
There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget
Don't you want to forget someone too?

And it's the wrong game and the wrong chips
Though your lips are tempting, it's the wrong lips
They're not her lips, but such tempting lips
That it's all right with me

It's the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face
It's not her face, but a charming face
And it's all right with me

It's the wrong song in the wrong style
Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile
It's not her smile, but a lovely smile
And it's all right with me

You can not know how happy I am we met
I'm strangely attracted to you
There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget
Don't you want to forget someone too?

It's the wrong game and the wrong chips
Though your lips are tempting, it's the wrong lips
They're not her lips, but they're tempting lips
And it's all right with me

And it's all right, it's all right
It's all right with me
It's all right with me

It's the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your lips are charming, it's the wrong face
It's not her face, but a charming face
And it's all right with me

It's the wrong...