Tom Waits - Tango Till They're Sore Lyrics






Well ya play that Tarantella
All the hounds they start to roar
And the boys all go to hell
Then the Cubans hit the floor
And they drive along the pipeline
They tango till they're sore
They take apart their nightmares
And they leave them by the door

Let me fall out of the window
With confetti in my hair
Deal out jacks or better
On a blanket by the stairs
I'll tell you all my secrets
But I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forever more

Make sure they play my theme song
I guess daisies will have to do
Just get me to New Orleans
And paint shadows on the pews
Turn the spit on that pig
Kick the drum and let me down
Put my clarinet beneath your bed
Till I get back in town

Let me fall out of the window
With confetti in my hair
Deal out jacks or better
On a blanket by the stairs
I'll tell you all my secrets
But I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forever more

Just make sure she's all in calico
And the colour of a doll
Wave the flag on cadillac day
And a skillet on the wall
Cut me a switch or hold your breath
Till the sun goes down
Write my name on the hood
Send me off to another town

Let me fall out of the window
With confetti in my hair
Deal out jacks or better
On a blanket by the stairs
I'll tell you all my secrets
But I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forever more

Send me off to bed forever more
Send me off to bed forever more
Send me off to bed forever more





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  1. B.... M....

    He turned 70 today. Damn. Life goes so fast.

    B.... M....

    I thought about taking you out myself

    B.... M....

    @Larry Dimick Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?

    B.... M....

    @Blister Monde You almost shot ME. Asshole !

  2. M.... B....

    Ultimate piece of art

  3. d.... s....

    Grande Tom, viejo zarpado.

  4. B.... ....

    Coolest musician on the planet.

  5. S.... ....

    We all make mistakes, yet they're not as wrong as we see them. You're as much as dead as the guy next to ya, so why not be nice?

  6. M.... M....

    Id tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.......

  7. B.... B....

    Love this man

  8. C.... G....

    American Gods, anyone?

  9. M.... A....

    he wants a party for his funeral. he's crazy drunk and telling a story about himself in the scattered and unfocused way a drunk guy would. The sleazy gambling night and mysterious shady characters are his idea of happiness, and death.

  10. o.... w....

    tnxalot

  11. N.... S....

    Tom Waits brought me here

  12. J.... B....

    Drunk listening to my high school playlist. Not disappointed <3.

  13. n.... ....

    My three year old says of this song, "he really wants to go to bed forever, huh? It must be because he keeps falling out of windows."

  14. E.... S....

    What you can do with three chords.

  15. T.... ....

    I think this is about him giving his funeral directions in a drunken ramble. Can't emphasise how much that appeals to me as a song.

  16. k.... m....

    Apparently there are at least 83 morons on earth, so send me off to bed forevermore

  17. a.... ....

    Neil Gaiman sent me here. "American Gods" Chapter 10.

  18. T.... F....

    ...yup 'junno what else? t'also makes nostalgia outta sperience you survive.

  19. T.... ....

    I'm lost for words with this song. It is just so wonderfully unique to Waits and sounds absolutely incredible.

  20. H.... O....

    i allways thought that was tom waits on the picture. he looks identical to him

    H.... O....

    It's an inmate of a mental institution who looks in better shape than Waits

  21. j.... ....

    Ah a Good day to you😆

  22. E.... ....

    Joker is singing...

    E.... ....

    For starters, they'll both tell you secrets and lie about their past.

  23. T.... ....

    oh so amazing..

  24. W.... B....

    Tom your the weirdest dude ive ever loved!!! Youre fucking awesome!!!!And im not gay!!!!

  25. C.... N....

    Fuck yeah!

  26. M.... A....

    Proof Neil Young is not the worst singer out there.

  27. k.... ....

    Tango is not my strong thing but flamenco is....yep I got it :p

  28. V.... C....

    💙 🍻 Naomi Κάμπελ Σεξ Βίντεο http://videorec.gq/CdG_H

  29. I.... T....

    Easily my favorite song.

  30. J.... S....

    let me fall out of the window with spaghetti in my hair

  31. I.... S....

    ..... but i lie about my pets

  32. p.... ....

    Timeless - play to your kids when they've developed a non-judgemental brain

  33. B.... R....

    Neil Gaiman quotes this song in American Gods :)

  34. S.... P....

    we know thats not Tom right? - love it- sernediptous Germanous photographous

  35. c.... ....

    This song always makes me remember my time living in New Orleans, pre-Katrina.

  36. b.... ....

    I love that schoenbeg ass piano

  37. m.... ....

    American Gods

  38. A.... B....

    It's almost like setting Charles Bukowski to music... Drinkin' buddies from another life.

  39. M.... ....

    I want this to be played at my funeral.
    Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair-

  40. B.... B....

    🗣️check out my cover version I just posted!? ✌️💩🎶🎷🎹🎙️😎

  41. J.... L....

    somehow eternal

  42. T.... P....

    Funny how much influence Tom Waits has, even to artists who don't sound like him at all. "Girl With One Eye" by Florence + the Machine basically rips its melody from this song. Now I want to do a Tom Waits-style cover of "Girl With One Eye".

    T.... P....

    the ludes wrote "girl with one eye," not florence.

  43. R.... ....

    gunlerden cuma. cemaat toplanmis ve onlarin yalakalari... sigaramin dumani artik beni isitir, tanrim artik kimsesiz cocuklar ve amerikan evsizleri misali zencilerdir. artik ne cuma vardir ne de musluman cemaat. herseyin palavra oldugu palavradan hayat...

  44. L.... P....

    Who the f@ck downvoted this song?!

  45. S.... L....

    Pure Genius

  46. K.... T....

    I listened to this song almost 1 hour each day for two years !!! and i still listen to it once in a while

  47. D.... C....

    He makes addiction, bad decisions and shame much
    easier to live with.
    Falling out of windows with confetti in your hair
    should be a Rite of Passage.

    D.... C....

    Refrigerator.

    D.... C....

    rotflmao!

    D.... C....

    Is this song referencing Scarface? Cubans hit the floor... Nick the pig, Cadillac, pipeline, sun goes down, tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past. Almost every line could be found in the movie...

    D.... C....

    David Cunningham true

    D.... C....

    Weddings funerals kisses xxxxxxxxxx

  48. J.... M....

    This song is killing me , can't stop listening to this !!!

  49. D.... S....

    i guess daisies'll have to do.

    D.... S....

    Just get me to New Orleans

    D.... S....

    And paint shadows on the pews

    D.... S....

    Turn the spit on that pig

    D.... S....

    Kick the drum and let me down

  50. A.... M....

    Hi check out my facebook profile with more music https://www.facebook.com/The-boy-who-loves-logic-1485252218448852 THANKS :)

  51. S.... M....

    obsessed

  52. T.... D....

    ".....they take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door...." I love this man. Now I'm sending myself to bed forever more.

    T.... D....

    Troy Daniel you must still be awake if your comment was edited

    T.... D....

    Being able to listen to this Song is enough reason to go on living

  53. A.... F....

    3392 thumbs up & 21 thumbs down. Means basically 4013 cunts viewed this & only 21 of them were such cunts they could still bring themselves to give it a thumbs down. I'm one of other 3392 cunts.

    A.... F....

    do you even math?
    3392 + 21 = 3413

  54. X.... M....

    does anyone know type of jazz this is considered?

    X.... M....

    +Xander McCloud Broadly, it's a blues. More specifically sort of a slow drag in the New Orleans style. The kind of music they might play at a New Orleans funeral. Look up Louis Armstrong's "St. James Infirmary" from 1928 for an early example (it's on YouTube). That's the closest I can come anyway--I'm not a musicologist.

    X.... M....

    A lot like Kurt Weil's music, he wrote the music for the three penny opera, you may remember "Mack the Knife".

    X.... M....

    Tom Waits is his own genre!

  55. J.... B....

    Well, you play that tarantella, all the hounds will start to roar
    The boys all go to hell and then the Cubans hit the floor
    They drive along the pipeline, they tango 'til they're sore
    They take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door
    Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
    Deal out Jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs
    I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
    And send me off to bed for evermore

    Make sure they play my theme song, I guess daisies will have to do
    Just get me to New Orleans and paint shadows on the pews
    Turn the spit on that pig and kick the drum and let me down
    Put my clarinet beneath your bed till I get back in town
    Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
    Deal out Jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs
    I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
    So send me off to bed for evermore

    Just make sure she's all in calico and the color of a doll
    Wave the flag on Cadillac day, and a skillet on the wall
    Cut me a switch or hold your breath 'til the sun goes down
    Write my name on the hood, send me off to another town
    And just let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
    Deal out Jacks or Better on a blanket by the stairs
    Tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
    Will you send me off to bed for evermore?

    Fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
    Deal out Jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs
    I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
    Send me off to bed for evermore

    J.... B....

    Jake Boi thank you!

  56. M.... ....

    Or Shane, less guilty about the things you have done.

  57. K.... T....

    best song ever

  58. f.... v....

    i'll tell you all my secrets but i'll lie about my past,so send my of to bed for evermore (and let the raindog into the kitchendoor)

  59. R.... J....

    drinking wine listening to waits. the only correct way

    R.... J....

    Lonelier than a parking lot when the last car pulls away?

    R.... J....

    red medium-dry will do, yeah

    R.... J....

    And a cigarette

    R.... J....

    coke weed nd wine the perfct combination for this to me

    R.... J....

    only if you paid for the bottle with pocket change...

  60. s.... ....

    This song is as sharp as razor blade. Hurt as hell.

    His voice combined with the lyrics and the sax/piano evokes unnamed feelings. Just makes you want to pick up a scotch bottle and drive your car through some scorched earth, contemplating the desolation around you whilst you recall your own, reviving sickening thoughts and pretending to accept utter sadness as a virtue, but secretly and desperately waiting for redemption.

    Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs is my favourite line for reasons I can't comprehend myself.

    s.... ....

    It is stairs, though. Stares makes no sense.

    s.... ....

    Yeah, it's stairs. I have no idea while I wrote stares twice. Weird typo, I suppose. Anyway, the thing that was wrong in his comment was "deal out jacks to bet on".

    s.... ....

    But "stares" makes it have another whole meaning which could be just as interesting.

    s.... ....

    Sweaq123: Wow! You're a good writer. And what's more Sugar, it sounds like you know how to spend a Saturday night. Hope to read more from you. xxoo

    s.... ....

    It's a trombone not a saxophone.

  61. a.... x....

    Golden.

  62. h.... ....

    The greatest song in existence.

    h.... ....

    what about shore leave?

    h.... ....

    I personally have always favored, "The Piano Has Been Drinking"....

  63. N.... F....

    I'd tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past...so send me off to bed forever more

  64. G.... C....

    I haven't heard one song that can convey as many emotions as this one.
    Makes you feel both happy and sad!?!? It takes genius to do that.

    G.... C....

    i can do that too?? just ask my wife. heheheeheheheheh

  65. S.... P....

    This reminds me of cleaning up an old apartment on a cloudy Sunday with an Italian woman(maybe it's the landlady). She starts out mean, pointing & barking orders. As the song goes on, I start dancing with the broom.Of course, she's looking bewildered.  I give her a smile and take her hand. Then we start dancing!  It could be a commercial or something, but that's the vibe I get. Cool!

    S.... P....

    For some reason, I teared up.. beautiful!

  66. V.... S....

    15 doushes

  67. B.... D....

    One of my favorite songs off of probably my favorite Tom Waits album...though there are a few contenders to that throne. Nevertheless my point is...Great fucking song.

    B.... D....

    +Bobby Davis The contenders being?

    B.... D....

    Swordfishtrombones and Bad As Me

    B.... D....

    @Bobby Davis Nice

    B.... D....

    +Bobby Davis Gotta include Alice and Orphans as close contenders as well! Too many to choose from, and he's one rare artist who actually got better with time.

    B.... D....

    @David Ashbourne Lots of great stuff on Orphans for sure. I love "Alice" as well, it's not one of my absolute favorites, but it's a great album. He definitely did get better with time. 

  68. T.... m....

    This is what genius sounds like.

    T.... m....

    @Tom mcLain Tru dat;).

  69. �.... �....

    "Hold me mummy" picture says

  70. C.... P....

    Please Tom get your ass over to the UK

    C.... P....

    @celtic prince and then come to France .

  71. D.... M....

    ....sassy sashay, step forward, throw head back....step ahead...smile. Laughter......xo.....

  72. t.... ....

    it really dont matter about the lyrics he could say any old words he just has really got a great voice great timing and delivery,the lyrics are jusy a cherry on what is such a good cake,a real musicians musician,never stopped improving,love this guy

  73. C.... B....

    Can anyone write better lyrics than Tom Waits? I think not!

    C.... B....

    tons of people.. its subjective

    C.... B....

    And yet Dylan wins the Nobel.

    C.... B....

    Conor Oberst is as good as Waits, but they are different. No one is as good at the descriptive theatrical type of lyrics that Waits writes. Dylan was better than anybody ever on Bringing it all back home. Bill Mallonee is also as good a writer as Waits, I believe.

    C.... B....

    No, I think probably not too, but how do you compare the likes of Gil Scott Heron or even the astounding, and often deeply meaningful, poetry found in early country/delta blues? It's a bit like trying to call the world's best writer of music for the piano............. impossible!

    C.... B....

    Christopher Bland Lou Reed

  74. m.... ....

    Just get me to new Orleans and paint shadows on the pews..

  75. M.... P....

    When I'm dead and gone, please play this song. 

  76. R.... S....

    Insane!

    R.... S....

    @Ratko Santrac In a good way, I hope?!?!

    R.... S....

    Good good:)!

  77. �.... �....

    excellent..!

  78. a.... T....

    dididididididdididididiididididididdidiidid

  79. J.... Z....

    Yet another

  80. J.... T....

    This song is a masterpiece.

    J.... T....

    Tom Waits is a masterpiece

  81. K.... ....

    Maybe my favourite song of all time

  82. S.... S....

    One of my favs!

    S.... S....

    and u r mine!!!!

  83. L.... ....

    Best song! I looooooooveeeee it! Tom ur a genius!

  84. P.... A....

    I was 13. and oh yeah I'm a fetus alien who is actually 23,999 years old.

  85. P.... ....

    "I'll tell you all my secrets but I'll lye about my past." So good.

  86. T.... H....

    couldn't have put it better XD

  87. W.... S....

    But I want Tom Waits' ear-babies.

  88. R.... W....

    The Chinese didn't stop Tibetans from procreating either, but the world recognizes it is genocide by social engineering.

  89. M.... B....

    It sure is ashame that all the coloured folks have magically stopped white people from pro-creating with other white people, right? I feel your pain.

  90. L.... A....

    Dedicated Tom Waits fan here. Have been for years. But check out a video for his song 'Russian Dance' that someone put on. Was made by a guy in film class in Moscow. So odd, but so fitting, because his music always defies the norm. And that's what I love about him the most.

  91. R.... W....

    Yet you anti-Whites have inserted thousands of Anti-White messages in TV shows, movies, and songs. Those messages are actually IN the presentation. Yet you said nothing about that.

    But when Whites are finally defended in whatever forum we aren't banned in, you tell us to be silent in the face of our genocide.

    R.... W....

    Gramps I think you're on the wrong video. I'm just trying to get a little w a v y, to some of Mr. Waits music. Pls be irrelevant elsewhere.

    R.... W....

    Bahahaaaaaaa! He said genocide. Go clean your rifle, pansy. Are you scared to have done to you what we did to the rest of the world forever and a day?

    R.... W....

    Robert White lol what a loser

    R.... W....

    Dan Hall the world deserved it, and the west doesn't deserve to pay for it go hate yourself somewhere else.

    R.... W....

    Robert White the replies just confirm what you said

  92. W.... ....

    Look I couldn't care less about your pathetic fantasies, I'm here to listen to a damn good song. Now if you don't mind, crawl back to your cesspit.

  93. R.... W....

    Are you for or against White Genocide?

  94. W.... ....

    What, in the name of the holy flying fuck, are you doing here? Please kindly piss off and never return. Thanks very much Bob.

  95. R.... W....

    We will not be silent in the face of White Genocide.