He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle
Waits was unable to make a living from his music in the 70s because his classical bar music, based in pre-rock, and Americana, blues, and Vaudeville styles were not popular. Waits's voice back then was soft, warm and clear.
Waits subsequently developed a devoted cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters, despite having little radio or music video support. In fact, his songs are perhaps best known to the general public in the form of cover versions of more visible artists, such as the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart.
Although Waits’s albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries.
Lyrically, Waits's songs are known for atmospheric portrayals of seedy characters and places; he sings about the losers on the streets: alcoholics, junkies, prostitutes and social outcasts, although he also includes more conventional and touching ballads in his repertoire.
While opening for Frank Zappa, the audience catcalled and refused to listen to him; he was an unsuitable match with Zappa's avantgarde style.
Countless cigarettes, gallons of alcohol and many all night parties eventually left their trace in his face and voice.
His more recent gravelly voice can be first heard on Small Change. This distinctive voice turned out to be his trademark. It is described by the Music Hound Rock Album Guide as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car". Small Change with its sentimental ballads, its bar-jazz attitude and Film Noir-oriented stories turned out to be his biggest commercial success in the 1970s.
Waits subsequently developed a more unique style. His songs have grown more abrasive since then, and the arrangements have turned more surreal and experimental with every new record. His life brings him to new visions, as indicated by the direction taken in his "Alice" release.
While composing the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's One From The Heart Waits met Kathleen Brennan, his bride-to-be. They married in 1980 and she helped him quit drinking and smoking. Since their marriage they have been working together on his albums as co-producers and co-writers. It is hard to say which part belongs to her and which to him, but it's easy to see that they make a perfect team. Additionally, his eldest son Casey can be heard on turntables and percussion on Waits's album "Real Gone".
One of Waits's greatest successes was the album "Swordfishtrombones", released in 1983. It struck with his critics and fans alike. He achieved a new level of song writing and left former conventions (and his earlier career) behind. All songs, whether ballads, jive or jazz are played in a completely different way. It seems that Waits had taken the musical archetypes of these styles and made them his own. All tracks are in the quintessential Waits style. They have a striking rawness and listenability and they set the stage for his success and his future career.
The Bad As Me Songfacts reports that 36 years after the release of Waits' first album, Closing Time in 1973, Bad As Me became Waits's first ever top 10 album in the US when it debuted at #6 with 63,000 sales.
In the late 1980s Waits discovered an outlet for his creativity in composing musicals. His first Musical was named "The Black Rider", and is based on "Der Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber. It was co-produced by Robert Wilson and the lyrics come from William S. Burroughs. The story is slightly reminiscent of Kurt Weil's and Berthold Brecht's "Three Penny Opera" and the 1930s. The debut performance of the play was in 1990 at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg and has been played by various theatre groups since then.
Waits was also responsible for two other musicals, which later became albums released simultaneously in 2002. One was the musical "Blood Money," which covers the "Woyczek" theme of Georg Büchner. This one is one of the darkest works from Waits. The other musical is based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". "Alice" is very romantic, dreamy and soft, and contains one of Waits most romantic songs. Even though they were released at the same time, the bootlegs of the "Alice" musical were long before traded between fans and were just rearranged and re-mastered for the official release.
Besides many film contributions as composer – the Internet Movie Database imdb.com lists 47 appearances of Waits as composer and 38 soundtracks containing songs by Waits - he also is an actor with a total of 25 appearances, ranging from some mini-roles as a trumpeter in "Heart of Saturday Night" and the R. M. Renfield in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" to the major role of Zack in Jim Jarmusch's "Down by Law". He recently appeared in Roberto Benigni's "The Tiger and the Snow", playing You Can Never Hold Back Spring at Benigni's wedding dream. Even more recently, Waits played Mr.Nick (the Devil) in Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus".
In addition to a number of concert videos, he also appeared in the critically-acclaimed concert feature film "Big Time" (1990).
Waits has always refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials. He has filed several lawsuits against advertisers for using his material without permission. Waits also successfully sued an advertiser for using a work that was stylistically similar to his work, after he had declined to sell them the rights to his song. He has been quoted as saying, "Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor."
Kiss Me
Tom Waits Lyrics
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All the embers have been spent
Outside on the street
Lovers hide in the shadows
You look at me
I look at you
There's only one thing
I want you to do
Kiss me
I want you to kiss me
Like a stranger once again
Kiss me like a stranger once again
I want to believe that our love's a mystery
I want to believe that our love's a sin
I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again
You wear the same kind of perfume
You wore when we met
I suppose there's something comforting in knowing what to expect
But when you brushed up against me
Before I knew your name
Everything was thrilling
'Cause nothing was the same
I want you to kiss me
I want you to kiss me
Like a stranger once again
Kiss me like a stranger once again
I want to believe our loves a mystery
I want to believe our loves a sin
Oh will you kiss me like a stranger once again
I want you to kiss me like a stranger
Kiss me like a stranger once again
The lyrics to Tom Waits's song "Kiss Me" are about the desire to recapture the excitement of a new romance. The singer addresses their lover, who they have been with for some time, and longs for the thrill and mystery of their initial meeting. The refrain "Kiss me like a stranger once again" speaks to this longing, implying that the familiarity and routine of the current relationship has dimmed the spark that was once there. The line "I want to believe that our love's a mystery, I want to believe that our love's a sin" suggests that the passion and allure of the unknown is what makes love so exciting for the singer. They want to feel a sense of danger and recklessness in their love once more.
The song plays with the theme of familiarity breeding contempt in relationships. While it's comforting to know what to expect from a long-term partner, it can also lead to boredom and complacency. The singer wants to shake things up and feel the rush of a new relationship all over again. The reference to lovers hiding in the shadows emphasizes the secrecy and excitement of illicit love, further underscoring the idea that danger and mystery are what make love exciting.
Overall, "Kiss Me" is a wistful, romantic song about longing for the excitement of a new romance. Its lyrics express a desire to recapture the passion and mystery of love, and its themes address the way that familiarity can breed complacency in relationships.
Line by Line Meaning
The fire's dying out
The passion in our relationship is fading away
All the embers have been spent
All the remaining sparks of our attraction are gone
Outside on the street
In the public, but hidden from the view
Lovers hide in the shadows
Couples seek privacy for intimacy
You look at me
You stare into my eyes
I look at you
I gaze into your eyes
There's only one thing
There's only one request
I want you to do
I desire you to do
Kiss me
Give me a passionate kiss
I want you to kiss me
I really crave your kiss
Like a stranger once again
Like we first met and kissed without knowing each other
I want to believe that our love's a mystery
I hope that our relationship has an unknown and fascinating aspect
I want to believe that our love's a sin
I wish our relationship is forbidden, passionate and exciting
You wear the same kind of perfume
You haven't changed your scent over the years
You wore when we met
You had that same fragrance when we first encountered
I suppose there's something comforting in knowing what to expect
Repeating the past is reassuring
But when you brushed up against me
When you touched me lightly
Before I knew your name
Before I was even introduced to you
Everything was thrilling
All sensations were electrifying
'Cause nothing was the same
Because everything was new and full of surprises
Oh will you kiss me like a stranger once again
Please, envelop me with novelty and intensity in your kiss
I want you to kiss me like a stranger
I long for a remarkable kiss as if it's from an unknown lover
Kiss me like a stranger once again
Make me feel your passion anew with a kiss like a first one
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, JALMA MUSIC
Written by: KATHLEEN BRENNAN, THOMAS ALAN WAITS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@user-vl1ox4gy4r
Эта песня даже от приступа очень сильной физической боли помогла...❤❤❤
@philipd7749
I guess there's some company in knowing what to expect ❤
@user-js6el7vn2r
Огонь затухает,
Все угольки дотлели.
На улице сталкиваются
Среди теней взгляды влюбленных.
Ты смотришь на меня,
А я — на тебя.
И я хочу от тебя
Лишь одного
Поцелуй меня,
Я хочу, чтоб ты поцеловала меня
Вновь, как незнакомка,
Поцелуй меня еще раз, как незнакомка.
Я не поверю, что наша любовь таинственна,
Я не поверю, что наша любовь — грех,
Я хочу, чтобы ты поцеловала меня вновь,
как незнакомка
Все тот же парфюм,
Он был на тебе, когда мы встретились,
Я думаю, когда знаешь, чего ожидать,
Это несколько успокаивает.
Но когда ты появилась передо мной,
Прежде чем я узнал твое имя,
Всё было завораживающе,
Потому что всё изменилось
Теперь я хочу, чтобы ты поцеловала меня,
Я хочу, чтоб ты поцеловала меня вновь,
как незнакомка,
Поцелуй меня еще раз, как незнакомка.
Я не поверю, что наша любовь таинственна,
Я не поверю, что наша любовь — грех,
Оо, поцелуй меня, как незнакомка,
Вновь,
Я хочу, чтоб ты поцеловала меня,
как незнакомка,
Поцелуй меня еще раз, как незнакомка.
@danisoaresduarte
The fire's dying out
All the embers have been spent
Outside on the street
Lovers hide in the shadows
You look at me
I look at you
There's only one thing
I want you to do
Kiss me
I want you to kiss me
Like a stranger once again
Kiss me like a stranger once again
I want to believe that our love's a mystery
I want to believe that our love's a sin
I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again
You wear the same kind of perfume
You wore when we met
I suppose there's something comforting in knowing what to expect
But when you brushed up against me
Before I knew your name
Everything was thrilling
'Cause nothing was the same
I want you to kiss me
I want you to kiss me
Like a stranger once again
Kiss me like a stranger once again
I want to believe our loves a mystery
I want to believe our loves a sin
Oh will you kiss me like a stranger once again
I want you to kiss me like a stranger
Kiss me like a stranger once again
@reidasplataformas9397
Lembra o Louis Armstrong 😍