Rainbow Sleeves, Girl at Her Volcano, Rickie Lee Jones [067]

Putting a bow on Blue Valentine, Kit, Sam and Martin dip back into Waits-adjacent material to listen to Rickie Lee Jones singing a Waits song. With some nerdy (and possibly inaccurate and impenetrable) music chat and also some slightly weird guess-work about their relationship chronology, Song by Song wraps up season six. 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: Rainbow Sleeves, Girl At Her Volcano, Rickie Lee Jones [w. Tom Waits] (1978/1983) A Lucky Guy, Pirates, Rickie Lee Jones (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 - Rainbow Sleeves You used to dream yourself away each night To places that you've never been. On wings made of wishes that you whispered to yourself Back when every night the moon and you would slip away to places Where you knew that you would never get the blues. Well, now, whiskey gives you wings to carry each one of your dreams And the moon does not belong to you But I believe that your heart keeps young dreams, I've been told To keep them there for growing old And a heart that has been broken will be stronger when it mends. Don't let the blues stop you singing Darling, you've only got a broken wing Hey, you just hang onto my rainbow Hang on to my rainbow Hang on to my rainbow...sleeves.