Semi Suite, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [015]

Truckin' further through Saturday Night's heart, Sam, Martin and Anna enter a tale of broken relationships on the roads of America. As Waits begins to speak about characters other than himself, the beginnings of a broader style of writing starts to make its presence felt. 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: www.songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: [email protected] Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Semi Suite, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits (1974) Working for the Man, More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits, Roy Orbison (1964) 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. Do not operate heavy machinery while being Tom Waits. Lyrics - Semi Suite Well, you hate those diesels rolling Those Friday nights out bowling When he's off for a twelve-hour lay over night You wish you had a dollar For every time he hollered That he's leaving and he's never coming back But the curtain-laced billow And his hands on your pillow And his trousers are hanging on the chair You're lying through your pain, babe But you're gonna tell him he's your man And you ain't got the courage to leave He tells you that you're on his mind You're the only one he's ever gonna find that's Kind of special, and understands his complicated soul But the only place a man can breathe And collect his thoughts is Midnight and flying away on the road But you've packed and unpacked So many times you've lost track And the steam heat is dripping off the walls But when you hear his engines You're looking through the window in the kitchen and you know You're always gonna be there when he calls Cause he's a truck driving man, stopping when he can He's a truck driving man, stopping when he can