If you’re familiar with Tom Waits you already know… but if not, the man is a wizard of words.
This song is about various shaky situations and the chorus contemplates how each story is going to end -- one where a man whose wife leaves him, another about a girl sinking like a hammer into a lake, and another about a killer, coming through the rye.
My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains - Everything But The Girl
I like the original by Captain Beefheart as well; Tracey Thorn’s voice is a beautifully hypnotizing gift.
My arms are just two things in the way
Until I can wrap them around you
You can make my sad song happy
Make a bad world good
I can feel you out there moving
You’re mine, I know I’ll find you
And my head is my only house until I’ve found you
