Straight to the Top (Vegas), Big Time [film], Tom Waits [166]

Martin and Sam welcome back Gabriel Ebulue of The Three Track podcast to take another look at the horrific wedding-singer persona expressed in this version of Straight To The Top. With cameos from other figures from the Tom Waits Players and theories about the cut-and-paste writing style in these songs, we take a fourth (and final) look at this tune. 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: Straight To The Top, Big Time (film), Tom Waits (1988) 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 - Straight To The Top (Vegas) Oh, you're beautiful. No no, I know you hear that all the time You are beautiful to me I mean, right now, I feel closer to you than I do my own family And that's kinda tragic when you think about it, I dunno I feel like I could look right inside those black little hearts of yours And then I, I feel like I know you individually and as a group I dunno, it's wild, it's never happened before It's a full moon, I dunno Have a cigar Y'know what I'm saying One for the balcony Whoa I'm sorry babe, I threw my arm out in spring training Aw I lost everything in the stock market So there's only one place to go I'm going straight up to the top, oh yeah I'm going where the air is fresh and clean Top! I'm going where the air is fresh and clean I'm not gonna let Doctor Sorrow operate on me today I just got to live for tomorrow, someone made me that way Top! I'm going up where the air is fresh and clean Whoa! I know I'm never gonna stop Until I know, I know I'm wild and free Hey, I'm going straight up to the top And if you know me, you know what I mean I can't let ol' Mister Sorrow try and pull me down I live for tomorrow, I have found you I'm going straight to the top, whoa I'm going up where the air is fresh and clean Yeah, whoa I just can't let Sorrow bring me down So people let's have a warm round of applause For Johnny Marinara on the tenor saxophone Let him know that you love him Lets hear it for all the fluorescents tonight Johnny Prosciutto, Johnny Pellegrino, Johnny Marinara Johnny Prosciuttiara Up where the air is Where the air is fresh, fresh and clean, whoa Whoa, how about that band? You're beautiful, thank you babe.