Sins Of My Father - Tom Waits 

Hope more young people discover Tom waits, this guy is a legend.

Tom Waits is a genius.

The lyrics is what makes him amazing.

Tom waits is inspirational Singer 🤠🤠😎

I'm gonna take the sins of my father, take the sins of my mother, take the sins of my brother down to the pond... does the light of god blind you or lead the way home for you?

I got an eargasm !!!

DP?

Tom Waits your addictive...

All of his music is so uniquely wonderful. It really takes you someplace else. Like a melodic adventure into a beautiful nightmare. A slow walk through a dark swamp with a good friend.

This song demands a rocking chair.

Late at night ... wife is sleeping ... having a last drink and a cigarette ... night can be so wonderful.

Two kinds of Waits fans: those who think this song is too long and that it damages Real Gone, and those who think it's a masterpiece and a big reason why Real Gone is his best of the 2000s. I'm in the second group. When I start listening to it, I can never stop until it's over. The best of its words are as good as anything he's ever written.

This is how it would have sound like if Charles Bukowski had been a musician

Waits is great for listening if you're drinking hard liquor. I love him.

When I hear this song I can smell the cigarette smoke

God said don't give me your Tin horn prayers Don't buy roses off the street down there Took it all and took the dirt road home Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair Night is falling like a bloody axe Lies and rumors and the wind at my back Hand on the wheel gravel on the road Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Birds cry warning from a hidden branch Carving out a future with a gun and an axe I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand The worlds not easy the blind man said Turns on nothing but money and dread Dogs been scratching at the door all night Long neck birds flying out of the moon light I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie The star spangled glitter of his one good eye Everybody knows that the game was rigged Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig Dark town alleys been hiding you Long bell tolling is your waterloo Oh baby what can you do Does the light of god blind you Or lead the way home for you? I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond God all mighty for righteousness sake Humiliation of our fallen state Written in the book of tubold Cain A long black over coat will show no stain Feel the heat and the burn on your back The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack All my belongings in a flour sack Will the place I come from Take me back I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig Treats you like a puppet when your under its spell Oh the heart is heaven But the mind is hell Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds I's born at this time for a reason you see When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time But the wines so pleasing and so sublime I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree Everything I done is between God and me Only he will judge how my time was spent 29 days of sinning and 40 to repent The horse is steady but the horse is blind Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind The roots grow upwared and the branches grow down Its much too late to throw the dice again I've found I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond I'm gonna wash them [2x] I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother I'm gonna wash the sins of my Brother Till the water runs clear [2x]

Who's here during COVID-19?

i just finished listening to everything tom waits has ever done. i'm ready to die any time now.

you're never alone with a bottle of bourbon and a tom waits album. the man talks to me on a level unequaled by any other!

Oh the heart is heaven but the mind is hell

Heavy Metal artists think they're hardcore. They have NOTHING on Tom Waits.

elvis is king my arse. Tom is the king of everything.....long life to you brother

I've been listening to a wide variety of music spannign many genres for most of my life now, but Tom Waits still occupies a unique and central place in my musical universe. I always come back to his music, and when I listen to a song of his, I rarely can stop at one.

This song is particularly touching to me because he appears to have sampled my doorbell somewhere in the background, which is absolutely terrifying.

Every line is pure poetry. "When I'm dead, I'll be dead a long time"

What the fuck, where do his lyrics come from?!!! Pure genius.

tom and captain beeheart have always been my main go to for more than I care to remember

This is music that you actually listen to. Stop and think about music nowadays. It's everywhere, and yet no where. From what's piped into grocery stores and laundromats, to what's drowning out the roar of the subway on your Ipod, what of it do you actually hear? This sucks you in and forces you to listen....just...really, really listen. This is real. This is what music should be, always. Thank you, Tom Waits.

when i'll be dead i'll be dead a long time, but the wine's so pleasant and so sublime

Gezz.... How can someone compare Tom Waits with Bob Dylan? I see no resemblance at all (Tks Lord) !! Could not have two artists more different than they ! WAITS IS WAITS PERIOD!

Nothin' like Tom Waits and Whiskey...

I love this song, it gives you time to finish that strong drink.

I really pity people who can not feel this fabulous song in the depths of their soul

I am drunk and high hope your too

He's a very extraordinary man....exorcising thorns from the flesh of men....

I take my Waits neat.

5 місяців, як з окупації... 5 місяців не слухав майстра... скучив по ньому.... слів не маю...

The intro really reminds me of a song called "Going back Home" by Howlin Wolf. Worth checking out if you like Tom Waits.

i just started listening to him and i love his voice, and now i even take naps listening to him.

Another masterpiece about a damned man by the master. You really get the sense of a man on a bad horse in a dry purgatory. He'll be dead soon, or maybe he's dead already. Tom Waits can write across the gap between breathing and going stiff. He can write any fucking thing he wants to write. His lyrics sit like poetry on the page better than most anyone's. And I love that bone machine sound. I've got a feeling that pond's gonna get dragged.

Dylan and Waits are both looking at the same world. And both tell us what they see and feel. You can't really compare them because they are both unique. I'm just glad that they are still out there telling us what they think about our world.

This CD smells like an old diesel tow truck........

Waits is the expression of many people he looked up to. The words of Bukowski, the clunk of Harry Partch, the swag of Hoagy Carmicheal, the delivery of Ken Nordine and the flow of free Jazz and Kerouac. This man is proof that following your own path pays ten fold.

You've got one great musical adventure ahead of you - Waits has nearly 20 albums worth of music out, and that's not counting some of the colaborations. Oh the joy of discovery! :)

For the 169 folks who don't like this,... What have you done? :^D

Tom Waits and Mary Jane make a beautiful couple

one of the greats of our time. a very important artist.

download all his stuff and start from the beginning,closing time,heart of saturday night,nighthawks,blue valentine...on and on

A fucken men brother

Damn, this song is so dirty... I love it!

Can’t believe nobody is talking about that guitar solo…. One of the best I’ve ever heard…

Every single Tom Waits song makes me want to direct a feature film based on it.

This is what feelings sound like! 🎩

Tom Waits, how do I explain him. All of his albums are views of people who aren't as good off as us. He wouldn't have to even add lyrics and we would still realize what he was talking about. Amazing.

Holy hell, is this song good. I got into Tom Waits really recently, and... now i see what i've been missing. Awesome!

this song's like driving a car outta the city, the passing lampposts lighting your face in sequence as you go, knowing there's a dead body in the trunk. maybe got a bottle riding shotgun, keeping you steady. You get outside of town, start driving down an old road to where you know there's an old creek. The chorus is like getting there and then, dragging that son of a bitch to the riverfront and dumping his ass in the drink.. and then, watching him SINK.

Dogs been scratching at the door all night👺

The horse is steady but the horse is blind Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind.....................genious

There are more awsome lyrics packed into this song than there are in the entire collections of most of the artists in the past fifty years

How to find Whiskey for free ? Pick an amazing Stone !

This man is one of a kind, one of the most important musicians of all time.❤❤❤

You have to watch “The Ballad of Buster Scrugs” he is just what you would expect!

I wrote a long comment then just realised words will never cover his words in this song... My god what a fucking artist he is...

My favorite lyrics from Tommy... "A tree born crooked will never grow straight." From this album a song called " How's it gonna end."

best consert in my life .who was playing? TOM WAITS

"tyborn" = "Tyburn." Tyburn Hill. Where they hanged all the robbers in the Childe Ballades.

I can not believe we do not have music like that these days anymore, the man is a poet, ono who can shape feelings with words and draw tears even from those who believes there is none to shed. Maybe because he knows what pain is? I do not know, but the weight of his words carry the truth of what we carry in the soul.

if this song never ended, I would be cool with that.

"God all mighty for righteousness sake Humiliation of our fallen state Written in the book of tubold Cain A long black over coat will show no stain" Yeah man, wrap thankfully yourself up in your coat instead of pointing that finger.

I think I just discovered the music I will listen to for the rest of my life. Just awesome. I can't believe I hadn't bothered to look him up until now. This guy is a lyrical powerhouse. I'm blown away.

Be careful what you ask for.... Hasn't Tom taught you that? :P

"Everybody knows that the game was rigged. Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig." Sirens at the station go off. It came together perfectly.

Saw that Tom Waits 10 years ago, THE concert of my life!!!! That guy is somebody...special! Great artist.

When he left the latenightbars and entered this raw sound, since Swordfishtrombone its been great earcandy.

7/1 dogs inside

Brilliant album. Soul food.

19 about to turn 20. Live my life much like waits.

57 people are paying for the sins of their father

Una delle canzoni più belle del nostro TOMMASO..

Damn. This video is from back when RU-vid had a 10 min duration limit. And this song is JUST over 10 mins. So it fades out just like 30 seconds before the end...

he still takes the the subway to all his gigs in ny.'seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train'-classic

The place I come from please take me baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaK

@ChrisCummins they shouldn't have changed the comments, it's just a pain in the ass now.

he'S not Dylan, he'S 100% Waits

This is the result of dead bodies falling into hell, that happen to brush past a floating guitar's strings... While Satan waits listens to his son tom sing music...

Really? I can get into Waits anywhere. And he's done vids and recordings just about anywhere...so it might be a surprise to you he's alright to listen to anywhere...just close your eyes, see him somewhere else..he won't mind...he'd applaud your creativity.

The longest song I've ever listened to that makes me wish it was another 10 or 15 minutes longer.

I love how gritty and dusty the production on this record sounds. A top 3 Tom Waits album for me.

DEAR BROTHER TOM THANK YOU YOUR WIL HAVE PLASEND DREAMS I WIL HAVE BECAUSE I FOUND YOU THANK YOU FOR YOR MUSIC WOUTER JOANNES

best best best best one more time best best best best artist

@movieonyoureyelids @thereegar It's sad if you don't listen to any other great musicians who haven't sold out, cause they're plentiful. You just dont hear them since they're not on lowest common denominator radio or that industry cash cow spotify

we do not say that in Ireland

"Herbert using this medium from now on" great Lyrics from a great Guy

Does anyone know which guitar Ribot plays?

Woke with this song in my head and couldn't find my cd. Thank you! "Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the Weeds "I was born at this time for a reason you see? When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time . . ."

This is so insanely good

Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie...

kicking and screaming blaming the sins of the father

this track is way too short

oh dluga noc nie mow nic o hostii na rzeka zaby i ich dzwieki rechot zgrzrrrytanie pochrapiwanie swierszczy miedzyniemi tymi ,.,.,zabimi dzwiekami nocnych wielkich zielonych pasikonikow'/' swierczy melodie i te zaby i jeszcze cos to wszystko wokol i w ogole ./.././