Off topic: More songwriters - poets -- Tom Waits Thread poster: Daniel Alcaine-Rich, M.V., BSc (X)
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Daniel Alcaine-Rich, M.V., BSc (X) 
English to Spanish
Tom Waits
From \"The Heart of Saturday Night\", 1974
Shiver Me Timbers
I\'m leavin\' my fam\'ly
Leavin\' all my friends
My body\'s at home
But my heart\'s in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines
On a new front page sky
My tears are salt water
And the moon\'s full and high
And I know Martin Eden\'s
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From \"The Heart of Saturday Night\", 1974
Shiver Me Timbers
I\'m leavin\' my fam\'ly
Leavin\' all my friends
My body\'s at home
But my heart\'s in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines
On a new front page sky
My tears are salt water
And the moon\'s full and high
And I know Martin Eden\'s
Gonna be proud of me
And many before me
Who\'ve been called by the sea
To be up in the crow\'s nest
Singin\' my say
Shiver me Timbers
\'Cause I\'m a-sailin\' away
And the fog\'s liftin\'
And the sand\'s shiftin\'
I\'m driftin\' on out
Ol\' Captain Ahab
He ain\'t got nothin\' on me, now.
So swallow me, don\'t follow me
I\'m trav\'lin\' alone
Blue water\'s my daughter
\'n I\'m gonna skip like a stone
So please call my missus
Gotta tell her not to cry
\'Cause my goodbye is written
By the moon in the sky
Hey and nobody knows me
I can\'t fathom my stayin\'
Shiver me timbers
\'Cause I\'m a-sailin\' away
And the fog\'s liftin\'
And the sand\'s shiftin\'
I\'m driftin\' on out
Ol\' Captain Ahab
He ain\'t got nothin\' on me
So come and swallow me, follow me
I\'m trav\'lin\' alone
Blue water\'s my daughter
\'n I\'m gonna skip like a stone
And I\'m leavin\' my family
Leavin\' all my friends
My body\'s at home
But my heart\'s in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines
Upon a new front page sky
And shiver me timbers
\'Cause I\'m a-sailin\' away
San Diego Serenade
I never saw the morning \'til I stayed up all night
I never saw the sunshine \'til you turned out the light
I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long
I never heard the melody, until I needed a song.
I never saw the white line, \'til I was leaving you behind
I never knew I needed you \'til I was caught up in a bind
I never spoke \'I love you\' \'til I cursed you in vain,
I never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane.
I never saw the east coast \'til I moved to the west
I never saw the moonlight until it shone off your breast
I never saw your heart \'til someone tried to steal,
tried to steal it away
I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face.
Diamonds on my Windshield
Diamonds on my windshield
Tears from heaven
Pulling into town on the Interstate
Pulling a steel train in the rain
The wind bites my cheek through the wing
Fast flying, freway driving
Always makes me sing
There\'s a Duster tryin\' to change my tune
Pulling up fast on the right
Rolling restlessly, twenty-four hour moon
Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head
Wishing he was home in a Wiscosin bed
fifteen feet of snow in the East
Colder then a welldigger\'s ass
Oceanside it ends the ride, San Clemente coming up
Sunday desperadoes slip by, gas station closed,
cruise with a dry back
Orange drive-in the neon billin\'
Theatre\'s fillin\' to the brim
Slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin
Metropolitan area with interchange and connections
Fly-by-nights from Riverside
Black and white plates, out of state,
running a little bit late
Sailors jockey for the fast lane
101 don\'t miss it
Rolling hills and concrete fields
The broken line\'s on your mind
Eights go east and the fives go north
The merging nexus back and forth
You see your sign, cross the line,
signalling with a blink
The radio\'s gone off the air
Gives you time to think
You ease it out and you creep across
Intersection light goes out
You hear the rumble
As you fumble for a cigarette
Blazing through this midnight jungle
Remember someone that you met
One more block; the engine talks
And whispers \'home at last\'
It whispers, whispers, whispers
\'home at last\', home at last
Fumblin\' With the Blues
Friday left me fumblin\' with the blues
And it\'s hard to win when you always lose
Because the nightspots spend your spirit
Beat your head against the wall
Two dead ends and you\'ve still got to choose
You know the bartenders
They all know my name
And they catch me when I\'m pulling up lame
And I\'m a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head
When I should be living clean instead
You know the ladies I\'ve been seeing off and on
Well they spend your love and then they\'re gone
You can\'t be lovin\' someone who is savage and cruel
Take your love and then they leave on out of town
No they do
Well now fallin\' in love is such a breeze
But its standin\' up that\'s so hard for me
I wanna squeeze you but I\'m scared to death I\'d break your back
You know your perfume
Well it won\'t let me be
You know the bartenders all know my name
And they catch me when I\'m pulling up lame
And I\'m a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head
When I should be living clean instead
Come on baby
Let your love light shine
Gotta bury me inside of your fire
Because your eyes are \'nough to blind me
You\'re like a-looking at the sun
You gotta whisper tell me I\'m the one
Come on and whisper tell me I\'m the one
Gotta whisper tell me I\'m the one
Come on and whisper tell me I\'m the one
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I love tom Wait\'s rough voice. But only for special moments.
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Corinne Bono
France
Local time: 11:23
English to French
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| thank you for a bit of emotion from a great artist. | May 5, 2003 |
thank you for a bit of emotion from a great artist.
Have a lovely week.
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Erika P (X)
Local time: 10:23
English to Hungarian
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| what an unexpected (re)encounter | May 7, 2003 |
love it
used to be a huge Tom Waits fan during my late teens
\"I’ve been a cabbie and a stock clerk
and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
and a manic mechanic on cars\".
\"I will tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past\".
He STILL strikes me as a person worth listening to – thanks, Daniel!
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