Earth Died Screaming, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [188]

Hey there - how’s it going? Oh nothing much, you? Yeah, it has been a while, but you know how it goes. Hey, you want to talk about some new Tom Waits songs? Cool. As we embark on our 14th season, Sam and Martin welcome Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling to talk through the quasi-religious eco-disaster anthem which opens Waits’s 1992 offering. We take a look at the contributors to this track and their relationship to Waits, the technical expertise both in this as well as the the work of Primus... plus Martin Austwick’s Tom Waits Secret Origin story, true believers! 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: Earth Died Screaming, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992) Tommy The Cat, Sailing the Seas of Cheese, Primus (1991) 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 - Earth Died Screaming Rudy's on the midway  And Jacob's in the hole The monkey's on the ladder  The devil shovels coal With crows as big as airplanes  The lion has three heads And someone will eat the skin that he sheds And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you Well, hell doesn't want you  And heaven is full Bring me some water  Put it in this skull I walk between the raindrops  Wait in bug house square And the army ants They leave nothin' but the bones And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you There was thunder  There was lightning Then the stars went out And the moon fell from the sky It rained mackerel It rained trout And the great day of wrath has come And here's mud in your big red eye The poker's in the fire  And the locusts take the sky And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you