Tom Waits Time

Tom WaitsTime, from the 1985 album Rain Dogs. Backing video taken from a live performance on the 1988 film Big Time. Lyrics: Well the smart money s on Harlow and the moon is in the street And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws And you re east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches And the rain sounds like a round of applause And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon His invisible fiancee s in the mirror And the band is going home, it s raining hammers, it s raining nails And it s true there s nothing left for him down here And it s time time time, and it s time time time And it s time time time that you love And it s time time time And they all pretend they re orphans and their memory s like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can t remember tell the things you can t forget That history puts a saint in ev