Big Time (1988)
Tom Waits: Self
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Tom Waits : I think the question I get asked the most is, well I dunno know, it happens a lot, enough that I would remark on it - a lot of people come up to me and they say "Is it possible for a woman to get pregnant without intercourse?" My answer's always the same, I say: "Listen. We're gonna have to go all the way back to the civil war. Apparently a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and then lodged itself in the ovaries of an 18 year old girl who was actually 100 feet from him at the time. Well, the baby was fine. She was very happy. Guilt-free. Course, the soldier's a little pissed off." When ya think about it, it's actually a form of intercourse, but not for everyone. Those who love action, maybe.
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Tom Waits : Things got a little snooty downtown here today. I was on one those streets that, you know, you know the ones. Okay? I walked into a hotel, I knew somebody stayed in the hotel. I walked into the hotel. I said, "Listen, could you direct me to the elevators?" The guy said, "You mean, the elevators to the rooms?" I said, "No, the elevator to Hell. Of course I mean the elevators to the rooms!"
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Tom Waits : Walk this way. Watch your step. Watch your step. Hey. Hey, you almost missed the show! You need a watch. That's right, buddy. Paris, Rome, Ann Arbor, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Sudan. Know what I'm sayin'? Step this way. Step this way please!
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Tom Waits : Oooo! Will you take me across the channel, London bridge is falling down, Strange a woman tries to save, For that a man will try to drown, And it's the rain that they predicted, Its the forecast every time, The rose has died because you picked it, I believe that brandy's mine...
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Tom Waits : There's a theatre right up Western, with seven X's. I mean, double-X, okay. Triple-X, eh... but seven X's. "GIRLS WITHOUT SKIN". That's all I could think... that I wanna see. "Come here baby, you're a doll, I love ya!"
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Tom Waits : I saw a place just outside on Western, a place that sells 'used erotica'. Think about it... do they clean it? Who cleans it? Are they licensed? All these questions came to my head... how used is it? Who used it? You follow me...
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Tom Waits : I loved Beverly. I loved her - often. Eh, okay, she made good Bloody Marys. She kept her mouth shut most of the time.
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Tom Waits : And on and on and on, anyway, and so, anyway...
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Tom Waits : They owned a chihuahua named Carlos. Okay, I love dogs. Let it be known, I love dogs. But, I draw the line. The dog - is a dog.
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Tom Waits : You wanna buy a ticket? You wanna buy a watch? Wanna buy a watch? Eight o'clock. The show's about to start. Come on in.
[singing]
Tom Waits : With buck shot eyes and a purple heart, I just rolled down the national stroll, And with a big fat paycheck, Strapped to my hip sack, And a shore leave wristwatch underneath, My sleeve, In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels, I rowed down the gutter...
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Tom Waits : His wife - well, I don't know, she was a doll, she was a babe, she was a killer, she was a - a spent piece of used jet trash.
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Tom Waits : It's good to be back in the land of wigs and novelties. Go ahead and laugh, but, when you need wigs and novelties and you're in Indiana, you can hang it up, buddy.
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Tom Waits : I had a rough flight in, you know. I don't know, we came in - we didn't come into LAX. We came into Bob's Airport.
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Tom Waits : [singing] Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Never drive a car when you're dead, Saturday's the festival, Friday's such a gem, I got to dye my hair yellow, baby, Chantilly lace and a pretty face, You know what I like...
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Tom Waits : We got the whole 4-H Club stayin' at our hotel. They're animals.
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Tom Waits : [singing] John John, He's long gone, Why he's gone to Indiana, He ain't never comin' home, John John, John John, My Papa was a rollin' stone, My Papa was a rollin' stone, Wherever he laid his hat was his home, But when he died, All he left us was alone, John John, John John, John John, Well, John John, And I was bangin' on a table with an old tin cup...
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Tom Waits : Alright, we're gonna do you a little story here. It's about a place in Minneapolis. In Minnesota. It's one of those dreams where everyone you never want to see again - showed up. "My Uncle Phil, over there. Shit! I owe him money. Money." This is about a street corner called...
[singing]
Tom Waits : It's 9th and Hennepin, And all the donuts around here have, Names that sound like prostitutes, The moon's teeth marks are on the sky, Like a tarp thrown all over this...
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Tom Waits : [singing] And you know that it's beginning, And you know that it's the end, Once again we are strangers, As the fog goes rolling in...
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Tom Waits : Wilshire's a little snooty. Western's very friendly. So, we're kind of - we're kind of - wouldn't you say we're at the corner of friendly and snooty? Yeah. The two missing Seven Dwarfs: Friendly and Snooty. Alright, this is a song about a little guy who lives in a little house.
[singing]
Tom Waits : Little crest fallen sidekick in an old cafe, But he slept with a dream before he had to go away...
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Tom Waits : Wow. I mean, it's wild, but, right now, I don't know, I feel closer to you than I do my own family. And that's kind of tragic, if you think about it. Eh, I don't know, I feel like I can look right inside those black little hearts of yours and I feel like - I feel like I know you individually and as a group. I don't know, it's far out. It's never happened to me before. It's a full moon. I don't know. Have a cigar.
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Tom Waits : [singing] It is such a sad old feeling, All of the fields are soft and green, And it's memories that I'm stealing, But you're innocent when you dream, When you dream, You are innocent when you dream, When you dream, You are innocent when you dream, And we were running through the graveyard, And we laughed my friends and I, And we swore we'd be together, Until the day we died, Until the day we died, And it is such a sad old feeling...
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Tom Waits : [singing] The rain sounds like a round of applause, Oh, 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, It's true there's nothing left for him down here, And it's time time time, and it is time and it's time, And it's time time time that you love, And it's time time time...
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Tom Waits : Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me, choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'! They're your days. Choke 'em!
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Tom Waits : [singing] I was in bad need of a shave, And I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein, I shot billiards with a midget, Until the rain stopped...
