Invitation To The Blues, Small Change, Tom Waits [041]

An invitation to musical analysis (as well as rambling nonsense), Song by Song returns to the diner for another longing message to an unattainable woman. Martin, Sam and Lucy Dallas return to discuss how realistic this longing is, how attainable the draw of independence and freedom might be, and whether Sam should practice piano on-air or in his own time. 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: Invitation To The Blues, Small Change, Tom Waits (1976) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Ghost In The Machine, The Police (1981) 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 - Invitation To The Blues Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula with yesterday's deliveries and the tickets for the bachelors she's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes but it's just an invitation to the blues and you feel just like Cagney looks like Rita Hayworth at the counter of the Schwab's Drugstore you wonder if she might be single she's a loner likes to mingle got to be patient and pick up a clue she says howyougonnalikem, over medium or scrambled anyways the only way be careful not to gamble on a guy with a suitcase and a ticket gettin out of here it's a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes but it ain't nothin but an invitation to the blues but you can't take your eyes off her get another cup of java and it's just the way she pours it for you jokin with the customers and it's mercy mercy Mr. Percy there ain't nothin back in Jersey but a broken down jalopy of a man I left behind and a dream that I was chasin and a battle with the booze and an open invitation to the blues but she's had a sugar daddy and a candy apple caddy and a bank account and everything accustom to the finer things he probably left her for a socialite and he didn't love her cept at night and then he's drunk and never even told her that he cared So they took the registration and the car keys and her shoes and left her with an invitation to the blues but there's a Continental Trailways leaving local bus tonight, good evening you can have my seat I'm stickin round here for awhile get me a room at the Squire and the fillin station's hirin I can eat here every night, what the hell have I got to lose got a crazy sensation go or stay, and I've got to choose and I'll accept your invitation to the blues