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Según wikipedia: Thomas Alan Waits (nacido en Pomona, California el 7 de diciembre de 1949) es un pianista, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense, famoso por sus canciones de tono áspero inspiradas en escritores de la generación Beat, en especial Jack Kerouac y Charles Bukowski.



Time
(Big Time live version, 1988)

The smart money's(2) on Harlow, and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breakin' all the laws
Oh, and it's east of East St. Louis(3), and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause

And Napoleon(4) is weepin' in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancée is in the mirror
And the band is goin' home, it's rainin' hammers, it's rainin' nails
It's true, there's nothin' left for him down here

And it's time, time, time
And it is time, and it's time
And it's 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 them gettin' smaller as they pull away
Oh, and the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
That history puts a saint in every dream

Oh, she said she'd stick around 'til the bandages came off
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
And Matilda(5) asks the sailors, 'Are those dreams or are those prayers?'
Close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit

And it's time, time, time
And it is time, time, time
And it's time, time that you love
And it's time, time, time

Oh, and things are pretty lousy for the calendar girls
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
Oh, and when she's on a roll(6), she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet

So put a candle in the window(7) and a kiss upon my lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Oh, and just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
Pay the fiddler(8) off till I come back again

And it's time, time, time
And it is time, time, time
And it's time, time, time that you love
And it's time, time, time

And it's time, time, time
And it is time, time, time
And it's time, time, time that you love
And it's time, time, time

Written by: Tom Waits
Published by: Jalma Music, Admin. by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP), © 1985-1988
Official release: "Big Time", © Island Visual Arts Inc. (P) Island Records Inc., 1988
Arrangement and lyrics published in "Tom Waits - Beautiful Maladies" (Amsco
Publications, 1997)
Also included in Big Time movie (1988). Further reading: Big Time full story