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Tom Waits - If I Have To Go
Songwriters - Kathleen Brennan / Tom Waits
Álbum - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards – disc two: Bawlers
Release date - November 17, 2006, in Europe, and on November 21, 2006 in the United States.
Recording year: 1984–2005
Label - ANTI
___ “…Orphans is the most unwieldy Tom Waits collection yet. Packaged in a Cibachrome-tinted box are three discs containing 56 songs total. It claims 30 new tunes, but a mere 14 can be found on other records -- six others have to be hunted for while the remainder have shown up in various incarnations. This crazy thing began as a collection of outtakes, rarities, soundtrack tunes, and compilation-only cuts -- some of which survive here in new form, including tracks from the Ramblin' Jack Elliot tribute, the Bridge benefit, and two Ramones covers, to name a few. In other words, the first conception was as a hodgepodge collection of attic material…”.
___ Thom Jurek ___

___ "A lot of songs that fell behind the stove while making dinner" is how Tom Waits describes his new three-disc set, Orphans. The collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over 30 newly recorded songs - from Wait's own versions of songs he gave to other artist to some "things I recorded in the garage with the kids" - while over two thirds of the material has never been heard before now. In addition to the new work, Orphans features a number of tracks finding a home on a Waits album for the first time. The first disc, called Brawlers, is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke-joint stomp; second disc Bawlers contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Wait's songs, while third disc Bastards is filled with experimental music, stories and jokes

“And if I have to go will you remember me
Will you find someone else while I'm away
There's nothing for me in this world full of strangers
It's all someone else's idea
I don't belong here and you can't go with me
You'll only slow me down

Until I send for you don't wear your hair that way
If you cannot be true I'll understand
Tell all the others you'll hold in your arms
That I said I'd come back for you
I'll leave my jacket to keep you warm
That's all that I can do

If I have to go will you remember me
Will you find someone else while I'm away”

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