Tom Waits - A Sight For Sore Eyes video free download


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Duration: 04:44
Uploaded: 2010/12/06

hey sight for sore eyes it's a long time no see

workin hard hardly workin hey man you know me

water under the bridge didya see my new car

well it's bought and it's payed for parked outside of the bar

and hey barkeeper what's keepin you keep pourin drinks

for all these palookas hey you know what i thinks

that we toast to the old days and dimagio too

and old drysdale and mantle whitey ford and to you

no the old gang ain't around everyone has left town

'cept for thumm and giardina said they just might be down

oh half drunk all the time and i'm all drunk the rest

yea monk's till the champion but i'm the best

i guess you heard about nash he was killed in a crash

hell that must of been two or three years ago now

yea he spun out and he rolled he hit a telephone pole

and he died with the radio on

no she's married and with a kid finally split up with sid

he's up north for a nickle's worth for armed robbery

hey i'll play you some pin ball hell you ain't got a chance

well then go on over and ask her to dance

Comments

9 years ago

Duncan Woods

Just beautiful. Have been listening to this for over 30 years, and it still gets me every time, as does Kentucky Avenue, and quite a few of his other songs. Absolute genius !

9 years ago

bananaPLEASE

I fell in love with Waits after stumbling upon and seeing Street Wise when I was about 12. I remember looking for the song from that movie in vain and then the excitement when I finally found it and downloaded it from Napster with that glorious dial up internet. Took the entire day to download... I felt like the coolest kid ever. I'm almost 27 now and seeing him perform live is the first and only thing on my bucket list.

9 years ago

Thomas Headley

56,000 views & many have covered his material & sold millions of CDs. Springsteen, the Eagles, Rod Stewart, & even Scarlett Johannson. It's not all nostalgia since the subjects of his ballads are with us always. A fan for 40 yrs. Signing off to put on "Rain Dogs" with Blind Love & Downtown Train. 

9 years ago

Snouci B

Great voice !!!

10 years ago

R Setarium

Happy new year everybody!

10 years ago

Nubbums

Beautifully said, old sport.

10 years ago

courier08

this song hit me rightin the heart when i first heard it, and it still do. i can easily go to sleep with this and i can drink to this aswell!it's so beautiful and sad...

11 years ago

I.J.J. martinez

one of the greatest tunes ever written. Waits...a real visionary to this Cuban refugee.

11 years ago

Edmundo De Peder

Sulashua, that is correct, what you say. Thanks for saying.

11 years ago

bouncyswing

Yes Mitsos! ;-)

11 years ago

DIMITRIS IOSIFIDIS

THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE

11 years ago

Giuseppe Fontana

Ehi Sulashua, maybe you're drunk, but I like the way you have said this thing.

11 years ago

Bband

Tom Waits is, amongst another million things, all about the glitter of the past that falls down on the gloomy present in the form of memories and stories told by once-used-to-bes and wanted-to-bes. What it comes down to, is the decadent feeling of dealing with the fact that we never became what we really wanted to be. Fuck, I'm drunk.

11 years ago

bgbreakdown

"Thelma"?

11 years ago

PettyYou007

The song is fantastic! If it is true that the video can be improved, do not you think? a greeting. Martin / My other channel "Raiwons"

12 years ago

Mark M

Yeah, that line always gets to me too.

12 years ago

2afsc

@pedroeuproprio Reminds me of my buddy Mike.... Must of been 5 or 6 years ago now...

12 years ago

graciebeaty11

Funny how a harsh whiskey soaked, cigarette stained voice like this can make me cry like a baby. Beautiful song, but then again, what else did you expect from Tom?

12 years ago

Pedro Queiroz

fantastic...no words to be said

12 years ago

Pedro Almeida

The line «he died with the radio on» amazes every single time I hear the song. It sounds to me like the best compliment Nash could ever get.

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