Chords for Tom Waits - Reality is for people who can't face drugs
Tempo:
114.9 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
B
E
C
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Our next guest [D] is one of the most distinctive writers and performers [N] working today.
He's kind of a combination poet, jazz singer, and vagrant.
a mixture of Satchmo Armstrong and Humphrey [Bb] Bogart.
please welcome Tom Waits.
Better than nothing.
professionally?
in Bedlam and Squalor.
You classify yourself as a poet or as a singer.
He's kind of a combination poet, jazz singer, and vagrant.
a mixture of Satchmo Armstrong and Humphrey [Bb] Bogart.
please welcome Tom Waits.
Better than nothing.
professionally?
in Bedlam and Squalor.
You classify yourself as a poet or as a singer.
100% ➙ 115BPM
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Our next guest [D] is one of the most distinctive writers and performers [N] working today.
He's kind of a combination poet, jazz singer, and vagrant.
He is a mixture of Satchmo Armstrong and Humphrey [Bb] Bogart.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tom Waits.
_ How are you, Tom? _
Better than nothing.
_ Where do you hail from professionally?
Is it the Big Apple, as they call New [B] York, I think, or is it Hollywood?
I live in Bedlam and Squalor.
_ _ [E] _
You classify yourself as a poet or as a singer.
Which one do you like to be [C] classified as?
I'm a [Bb] Methodist.
How does a guy with a voice like that decide to be a singer and succeed?
Well, it was [Eb] a choice between [Db] entertainment [B] and a career in air conditioning and refrigeration.
Do you ever live in a car in L.A.? _ _
Well, for a brief time, I think everybody's lived in a car.
It's kind of strange to have a guy sitting here with a bottle in front of him.
_ [Eb] Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
[E] _
In your high school, about the strongest drug that you'll find used there is pimple cream.
_ _ [G] I've always maintained that reality is for people who can't face drugs.
_ Here you go.
[N] Well, they got people working for you and everything.
That's right. _ _
All of it.
It never fails, Tom.
I get, you know, you can ask for anything you want on this show and we'll have someone go out and get it for you. Christ. _ _ _
What was writing with Keith Richards like?
_ Well, you know, _ you always finish something.
You might finish the bottle.
You might not finish the song.
What were your parents like?
My father was an exhaust manifold and my mother _ _ was a tree.
Do I worry about achievement?
Yeah.
No, _ _ I worry about a lot of things, but I don't worry about achievement.
No.
I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs [C] in heaven.
He's kind of a combination poet, jazz singer, and vagrant.
He is a mixture of Satchmo Armstrong and Humphrey [Bb] Bogart.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tom Waits.
_ How are you, Tom? _
Better than nothing.
_ Where do you hail from professionally?
Is it the Big Apple, as they call New [B] York, I think, or is it Hollywood?
I live in Bedlam and Squalor.
_ _ [E] _
You classify yourself as a poet or as a singer.
Which one do you like to be [C] classified as?
I'm a [Bb] Methodist.
How does a guy with a voice like that decide to be a singer and succeed?
Well, it was [Eb] a choice between [Db] entertainment [B] and a career in air conditioning and refrigeration.
Do you ever live in a car in L.A.? _ _
Well, for a brief time, I think everybody's lived in a car.
It's kind of strange to have a guy sitting here with a bottle in front of him.
_ [Eb] Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
[E] _
In your high school, about the strongest drug that you'll find used there is pimple cream.
_ _ [G] I've always maintained that reality is for people who can't face drugs.
_ Here you go.
[N] Well, they got people working for you and everything.
That's right. _ _
All of it.
It never fails, Tom.
I get, you know, you can ask for anything you want on this show and we'll have someone go out and get it for you. Christ. _ _ _
What was writing with Keith Richards like?
_ Well, you know, _ you always finish something.
You might finish the bottle.
You might not finish the song.
What were your parents like?
My father was an exhaust manifold and my mother _ _ was a tree.
Do I worry about achievement?
Yeah.
No, _ _ I worry about a lot of things, but I don't worry about achievement.
No.
I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs [C] in heaven.
