The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [193]

For our third track with Eliza and Greg, we delve into a bleaker and more introspective world in Waits's atmospheric poem contemplating seaside suicide. Returning to his attitude to alcohol and growing up, we also take a look at a longer theatrical piece for comparison, via the work of Samuel Beckett. 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: The Ocean Doesn't Want Me, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992) A Piece Of Monologue, Sound For Spaces, Scanner/Robin Rimbaud/Samuel Beckett (1979/1998) 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 - The Ocean Doesn't Want Me The ocean doesn't want me today But I'll be back tomorrow to play And the strangels will take me  Down deep in their brine The mischievous braingels Down into the endless blue wine I'll open my head and let out  All of my time I'd love to go drowning And to stay and to stay But the ocean doesn't want me today I'll go in up to here It can't possibly hurt All they will find is my beer  And my shirt A rip tide is raging  And the life guard is away But the ocean doesn't want me today The ocean doesn't want me today