To me the Tom Waits song is about the very basic human need for love. It seems to be about a lonely man and his longing for a woman, this is in a broad sense as he views all the Brooklyn girls caught in the same trap of their ordinary lives, going downtown on a search of their own. To him though they're the thorns without the rose, there is just one who's captured his heart, like a fairy tale princess, out of reach. I'm not even sure if she even exists or whether she's part of the dream in the hearts of the Brooklyn girls themselves.......all those lonely people waiting to be taken out of it by love.
i really liked your interpretation but you couldn't be more wrong this song has nothing to do with love or a girl!!!please listen to it again.this song is about heroin addiction!!!
plain and simple!the beauty of it is that it can be interpreted as a love song but it's all about shattereed dreams,waiting for the dealer to show up,"by the fourway"and in the end he's left lonely,wanting, and destroyed1!!"you watch them fall they all have heart attacks"
and every night every night its just the same."ON A DOWNTOWN TRAIN"...now i hope you can enjoy this song the way it was meant to...
i really liked your interpretation but you couldn't be more wrong this song has nothing to do with love or a girl!!!please listen to it again.this song is about heroin addiction!!!
plain and simple!the beauty of it is that it can be interpreted as a love song but it's all about shattereed dreams,waiting for the dealer to show up,"by the fourway"and in the end he's left lonely,wanting, and destroyed1!!"you watch them fall they all have heart attacks"
and every night every night its just the same."ON A DOWNTOWN TRAIN"...now i hope you can enjoy this song the way it was meant to be heard.
To me the Tom Waits song is about the very basic human need for love. It seems to be about a lonely man and his longing for a woman, this is in a broad sense as he views all the Brooklyn girls caught in the same trap of their ordinary lives, going downtown on a search of their own. To him though they're the thorns without the rose, there is just one who's captured his heart, like a fairy tale princess, out of reach. I'm not even sure if she even exists or whether she's part of the dream in the hearts of the Brooklyn girls themselves.......all those lonely people waiting to be taken out of it by love.
i really liked your interpretation but you couldn't be more wrong this song has nothing to do with love or a girl!!!please listen to it again.this song is about heroin addiction!!! plain and simple!the beauty of it is that it can be interpreted as a love song but it's all about shattereed dreams,waiting for the dealer to show up,"by the fourway"and in the end he's left lonely,wanting, and destroyed1!!"you watch them fall they all have heart attacks" and every night every night its just the same."ON A DOWNTOWN TRAIN"...now i hope you can enjoy this song the way it was meant to...
i really liked your interpretation but you couldn't be more wrong this song has nothing to do with love or a girl!!!please listen to it again.this song is about heroin addiction!!! plain and simple!the beauty of it is that it can be interpreted as a love song but it's all about shattereed dreams,waiting for the dealer to show up,"by the fourway"and in the end he's left lonely,wanting, and destroyed1!!"you watch them fall they all have heart attacks" and every night every night its just the same."ON A DOWNTOWN TRAIN"...now i hope you can enjoy this song the way it was meant to be heard.