Saving All My Love for You, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [070]

Back one more time with Miranda and Andy, we dive right into the gender politics of criticising women for breaking their shoes and dressing up like cars, as well as Waits borrowing the childrens television music of Bryan Daly (circa 1981, not 1986, apologies for that). With Whitney Huston's smooth stylings as counter-point, Song by Song continues its journey along Heartattack and Vine. 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: Saving All My Love For You, Heartattack And Vine, Tom Waits (1980) Saving All My Love For You, Whitney Huston, Whitney Huston (1985) 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 - Saving All My Love For You It's too early for the circus it's too late for the bars everyones sleepin but the paperboys and no one in this town is makin any noise but the dogs and the milkmen and me the girls around here all look like Cadillacs and no one likes a stranger here I'd come home but I'm afraid that you won't take me back but I'd trade off everything just to have you near I know I'm irresponsible and I don't behave and I ruin everything that I do and I'll probably get arrested when I'm in my grave but I'll be savin all my love for you I paid fifteen dollars for a prostitute with too much makeup and a broken shoe but her eyes were just a counterfeit she tried to gyp me out of it but you know that I'm still in love with you don't listen to the rumors that you hear about me cause I ain't half as bad as they make me out to be well I may lose my mind but baby can't you see that I'll be savin all my love for you