Bad Liver And A Broken Heart, Small Change, Tom Waits [043]

Martin and Sam welcome their new guest host Callum Hughes, immediately getting side-tracked by old sitcom themes and how old Geoffrey Palmer might be. Casablanca misquotes, internal rhyming structures, intertextuality and depression - all on Song by Song. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: [email protected] Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell), Small Change, Tom Waits (1976) Old Red Eyes Is Back, 0898 Beautiful South, The Beautiful South (1992) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly. Lyrics - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell) Well I got a bad liver and a broken heart yea I drunk me a river since you tore me apart and I don't have a drinking problem cept when I can't get a drink and I wish you'd a known her we were quite a pair she was sharp as a razor and soft as a prayer so welcome to the continuing saga she was my better half and I was just a dog and so here am I slumped I been chippied and I been chumped on my stool so buy this fool, some spirits and libations it's these railroad station bars with all these conductors and the porters and I'm all out of quarters and this epitaph is the aftermath yea I choose my path hey come on Cath, he's a lawyer he ain't the one for ya and no the moon ain't romantic it's intimidating as hell and some guy's tryin to sell me a watch and so I'll meet you at the bottom of a bottle of bargain scotch I got me a bottle and a dream it's so maudlin it seems you can name your poison go on ahead and make some noise I ain't sentimental this ain't a purchase it's a rental and it's purgatory, hey what's your story, well I don't even care cause I got my own double-cross to bear and I'll see your Red Label and I'll raise you one more and you can pour me a cab I just can't drink no more cause it don't douse the flames that are started by dames it ain't like asbestos it don't do nothing but rest us assured and substantiate the rumors that you've heard