Posting 12-7-22. I'll be 60 next June 10. Where DID the time go?! Happy 73rd to Tom Waits and many more! Thanks for part of the lyrics "How the hell did I get here so soon?" I never knew what he was saying before.
I just turned 63 and I still haven't grown up I still do the things I've always done..So if you think you are OLD REMEMBER YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE & YOU ALWAYS WILL BE YOUNG AT HEART.. YOUR OLE FRIEND..
Are you in your twenties? if so, hang in there. It get's easier. And you can find something if you want to. Of course you might need professionel help if it's a clinical depression, but so or so i'd recommend sports. And( controversial, i know, but) try magic mushrooms. But do so, when you are not in a bad or depressive mood and at a place you feel comfortable and if not alone then only with people you know and trust and don't bring you down (Just do your research). Not recreationally. I'm serious. It might help you to sort things out.
The young and the old playing music together. Your adult self keeping your pure child self alive, that's how i hear it anyway. And there are many people listening to Tom Waits and in this comment section keeping that spark alive. Keeping that clean tone alive throughout their distortion. We should always be holding the hand of our younger self, our essence. Trouble is a lot of people don't realize that they let go.
@@charliegrs it sounds like a semi hollow/hollow body electric guitar playing through a distorted amp, but the vocal mic is picking up the acoustic part of the guitar as well
I was taking a class at the Old Town School of Folk Music here in Chicago. We were discussing projection of emotion in song, and I brought up this one. The instructor said "Exactly! Tom Waits is a million years old, but when he says 'I don't wanna grow up' you believe him."
I love the Ramones version of this song. This song has lyrics that today, at 44 years of age, make perfect sense to me. Thank you Tom Waits for making an old man emotional every time he hears this song.
Whoa dude!! If ur an old man at 44.. I'm screwed!!! I'm 75. Trust me bro... live it right, bless as many people and friends as You can, and you can have some wonderful life ahead of you
I was driving home from a long weekend of drinking up in Chico state. As I was driving and thinking of my brother who recently had died I just burst into tears. Had to pull off the road and let it out. Thank you Tom for this gem of a song. It means everything.
The when "I see my parents fight, I don't wanna grow up" part gets me in the feels. My parents arguing and fighting made me want to live alone when I grew up. Now, I do.
Seen my grandparents argue with each other, seen my parents argue with each other... I tried to live with a woman two times, both times I ended up being the victim of verbal and emotional abuse. Being alone brings peace of mind. The world is not a good place after all.
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever wanna be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems like folks turn into things that they'd never want The only thing to live for Is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set I don't wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest And I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go out and drinking all night And I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't wanna live in a big old tomb On Grand Street When I see the 5 o'clock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna get me a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float a broom Fall in love and get married then boom How the hell did it get here so soon I don't wanna grow up
I am the slime oozing out From your tv set I am gross and perverted Im obsessed n deranged I have existed for years But very little had changed I am the tool of the government And industry too For I am destined to rule And regulate you I may be vile and pernicious But you can't look away I make you think Im delicious With the stuff that I say I am the best you can get Have you guessed me yet? I am the slime oozing out From your tv set You will obey me while I lead you And eat the garbage that I feed you Until the day that we don't need you Don't got for help...no one will heed you Your mind is totally controlled It has been stuffed into my mold And you will do as you are told Until the rights to you are sold That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial Well, I am the slime from your video Oozing along on your living room floor I am the slime from your video Cant stop the slime, people, look it me go Frank Zappa
@@creamwobbly absolutely. The world is run on the USA Federal Reserve Currency indemnified by a American TAXPAYER FHFA and FDIC "Insurance Casino" the $2,000 TRILLION ISDA SWAPS Casino, every human activity known to man is "Monetized" in the "Click Bait" World we are in since 2009 when the Obama Nation refused to dissolve the World's largest Casino in all of human History. An ISDA regulated Casino in the DARK by the 1% Money Masters who can never be held accountable for 1-3% pure profits annually on $2,000 TRILLION worth of annual 60,000 Hedge Funds..... "Insurance Bets" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The most fantastic free criminal money machine in Human History. 20 years ago considered a Capital Crime against HUMANITY, because a Casino is a criminal enterprise under the Laws of Nations and Humanity. Pure GAMBLING THEFT ! When the 20212 AIG trial concluded the Judge asked ex Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke what Law allowed the USA Federal Reserve to "Socialize" nearly $70 TRILLION in Worldwide "Insurance bets fraud and bailouts" and "privatize" the $300+++ BILLION in FDIC broker fees in the USA in 2009 alone, Ben Bernanke responded to the Court, ...."the Domesday Book".........800 year old Ex Parte British Crown Law......implying that as agents of the Government (Crown/King) and the levying and spending of the TAXES and MONEY of the (USA/English Common Law) World, they could NEVER be legally held accountable as "Agents of the King and........God"........ for malfeasance with TAXPAYER MONEY. or the ISSUANCE of that money in CRIMINAL or CIVIL proceedings. Hence Lloyd Blankfeinn's amazing statement while CEO of Goldman Sachs at the time "We are doing's God's work"...!!!!!!!!
@@lorenzo6mm As a millionaire, I am well insulated from the unfairness that is bestowed onto the "little" people. God has a plan for each and everyone of us. Give mercy to the Lord. Thank you Jesus, for the fruits of my labor. Amen.
3/8/2021 I turned ... 67 ..... today. 😳 😢 .... Always knew this song by the gods - *THE RAMONES.* 🤘Had no idea it was a cover & written by Tom Waits, no less! This song: forever one of my theme songs & at 67 ... I will NEVER grow up. Play hard, ignore rules, take reasonable risks. Life is too fckn short, kids!
Its a great song but imo its not a typical Tom Waits song. So me too heard the Ramones version first and thought they wrote it. Anyway, I love Tom Waits and I love the Ramones.
Will u rply me I don't think :( I am suffering from negative folks around me who trying to make me like everyone else 🥺 I don't wnt to grow up but I don't give up
One summer in the late seventies we drank four roses bourbon all night. And listened eight albums of Tom, one or two of them double. And when the sun came up at four, we continued. Oh my god, I never forget that night and Tom´s music. Thank you, old man. Greetings from an old lady poet in Finland.
@@buddybeetle Hei buddybeetle. Where you live, in England or Finland. Now I very often listen my two albums of TW: Bone machine and Mule variations. And I´ve tried to translate I´m gonna take it with me. It is difficult but I manage because I´m a poet too. With best wishes from Maria.
Coincidentally Tom shares a birthday with my best friend who unfortunately passed away at the young age of 20 in the beginning of 2020. Both him and Tom are born on December 7th. So listening to this song always makes me emotional because my buddy didn’t grow up. Rest In Peace bro
I’m 62, just started paying this tune, fantastic finger picking study. I took care of my Mom in her last years, my father passed 5 yrs previous & i was away. I then took care of my Aunt for 2 yrs. My cousin & I are the last of our line & nobody will be here to take care of us. Growing old is no fun. It’s Dr apts every week, such a waste of time. Words of advice, empty out your house & have all your papers in order so who ever does find you has a simple plan to follow. My mother made us sell everything she had so we would not be burdened with it. She was very wise. ❤ Tom.
César Martín are you referring to the Peruvian band? They are brilliant. Also, it’s “listen” not “watch”. Just a heads up. A good way to remember is “watch” is with your eyes and “listen” is with your ears :)
Lyrics... When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever wanna be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems like folks turn into things That they'd never want The only thing to live for Is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set I don't wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest And I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go out and drinking all night And I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb On Grand Street When I see the 5 o'clock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna get me a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float a broom Fall in love and get married then boom How the hell did I get here so soon I don't wanna grow up
On my days off I ride the ruckus over to the cemetery to see the family. They are all there - all of them. I like to talk for a while, and so forth. Its kind of like a therapy session, not unlike a Waits record. By the way, cemeteries are quiet, and peaceful, and a great place to get away from living people. And during a pandemic the living people are the ones that you need to avoid. PSA, Miami. Bless.
after 40 you jus dont care to count them anymore.. just remember to live more like tom waits. the trick is to never grow up. greet each moment with the wide eyed wonder and innocence of a child and every day will be a holiday and every meal a feast. trust me in that it doesnt get worse, it gets better. the older you get the more you realize theres less time to focus on the bad and youll find yourself remembering more good times than bad ones.
Hello All Hope All are well. Stopping by, it'sa my birthday🎉 5# and this tune came to mind. Didn't think I'd get this far..I'm grateful. Cheers at all🍻
My dad died this year of the Covidvirus, out of nowhere while he just bought a new shop premises for his own company on the main shopping street in the town. Now that I lost my dad on just age 23, Tom Waits is in my head rentfree continuously playing this song.
I rarely share Tom's music, let alone my obsessive borderline compulsive love for his music, because people either understand Tom Waits or they don't. And VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HIS GENIUS! It reminds me of a secret that's in plain sight for everyone to see, but very few actually see it. It's the same thing with The Velvet Underground, and maybe a one or two other artists. I remember a so called friend of mine and I were having a conversation shorty after Robin Williams passed away. In that conversation, I mentioned Robin Williams was a die-hard Tom Waits fan. My friend Seth Stenerson said: "Maybe that's the reason why Robin killed himself." What a fucked off thing to say! I quite hanging out with Seth for many reasons. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
There is always a hint of awareness even in the craziest of his songs. Sometimes you have to reach for it though, or the awareness is in the lack of awareness, satire. He never took anything seriously his whole life, it's the only thing he ever took seriously.
Got interested in Tom Waits when I heard Keith Richards played with him. First album was Blood Money, and the first song I ever heard was "Misery is the River of the World." I immediately thought WTF did I just buy...and ejected the cd. Eventually I put it back in, and listened to it. I now love Tom Waits.
You ever feel like you just never had enough time to soak it all in? Like there’s an entire portion of the past that’s right at your fingertips, seems so close but it’s extremely far away. Those beautiful times with beautiful people that will never ever happen again. It’s such an insane feeling nostalgia is. Love you Tom! 🤘
Still living in my hometown in the house that I inherited from the folks. The neighbors across the street have spent the last 10 hours yelling on and off at their three little brats running around like mental cases. Brought me back to this song immediately when people pester me about "when am I getting married". The parents are arguing with each other on and off and their kids are out of control so I think it's inevitable the marriage is going to fall apart sooner or later. I don't want that in my life. A dead end marriage and divorce sounds like a good waste of 10-15 years of the prime of your life. If that is considered "growing up" count me out!
Yes my friend.. takes a few years of lonliness, but eventually if one keeps watching his friends lives fall apart, fall into unhappiness, & despair.. and always keeps a meaningful goal to keep working towards, the lonliness turns to gratitude that he is no longer in that unreachable goal of living onily to please someone else. It actually does get better... ❤ blessings
Hi Kids, I'm past 65 years of age. First heard of Tom Waits in 1979. Old buddy turned me on to 'It Ain't the Meat' song. He used to play it when my girl friend stopped by. LOL. Stay young kids, it's the only way to live.
Yeah, I just heard this song as background music in a movie and came right here to have a proper listen. The first time I ever heard this was on Bevis and Butthead.
it's insane how music can relate to generations decade after decade. I'm 19 and in the full fledges of living on my own and working my ass off just to live, but I'm still watching my favorite cartoons, listening to the same music, I still have all my hobbies. It feels like I'm fighting maturity and it scares me.
@@mr.c4p, fuck yeah grow old not up is how I live. Ive got 30 years on grandmascat and I still laugh at evil farts, the filthy humour has only improved with time though
I'm a new fan of his, it's only been over a year since I discovered him. (As of this comment being typed, I am 21). And decided to finally give his music a shot after hearing a lot of other artists (musical and visual) credit him as an inspiration, and had my mind blown within the first few notes of, "God's Away on Business". I never heard something like it before then. It was then that I realized that his music was featured in some of my favorite movies I've seen growing up (Robots and Shrek 2, for example). I have been doing my best to listen to as many of his Albums as I can. (My current favorite of his is The Black Rider.) I'm so glad I discovered him as I was entering my 20's, and before it was too late. Looking forward to (hopefully) hearing new music from this terrific artist.
I remember listening to this with my friends in the 90s shortly after it came out. Everyone shut up and listened when it came on. You could just tell this was instantaneously a timeless classic. I hope people listen to this for the next thousand years.
I'm what I'd consider to be a "new fan". I'm 23 and found tom from reading claypools biography and I'm gonna just say it. I've never been so happy to love a musician. The art is incredible, he's deep, thoughtful and paints a better picture than any other artist I've ever met. Charlotte Kemp Muhl really is responsible for me loving this man. I hope he tours so I have a chance to see a master practice their craft.
@@yoshataylor-bourgea1076 When I met her some few years ago during the GOASTT tour she dropped the name and a quote I'd never forget. "I'm so horny the crack of dawn better be careful around me" Immediately I had to investigate. Eventually waits brought me over to cohen. Amazing how these things work!!
This is arguably my favorite TW song. Yes I argue with myself all the time. I keep winning too. Anyhow the lyrics here always get me. Thanks again Tom for this song for getting me through all the tough times.
I just came from "Hold On" and was thinking "It's a tough call, but I think this is my favorite Tom Waits song" then I click over to this one and I'm like "No, THIS is my favorite Tom Waits song" and it'll continue with that trend for every Tom Waits song I listen to lol I guess my favorite will just be the one I've listened to most recently
This was the first Tom Waits song and video I ever experienced, back when I was small. I saw it on TV while sitting in restaurant attached to a library, sometime back in 1993, I believe. Definitely has a bit of a tinge of sadness to it, and I remembered this for many years as the video with the guy 'complaining about something'. I saw the video for 'In the Neighborhood' probably a couple of years later in 1995, but I kind of forgot about Tom Waits until 1999's 'Mule Variations' and the storytellers episode. When I started buying his albums in 1999, it was mostly in chronological order, with the exception being 'Bone Machine' after 'Closing Time'. The contrast in that 20 year period was huge. It is hard to conceive those 2 records were even made by the same artist. A fun fact about this video, it was filmed the day before 'Coffee and Cigarettes', in which Tom and Iggy Pop met at a diner, like one in this video. It is the same diner set actually. Same lights, booths, decor and even the picture hanging on the top left is the same; but they replaced the picture of James Dean with one of the Golden Gate Bridge. Since the scene with Iggy was supposedly filmed somewhere in Northern California, this video may have been as well the day before. The few outdoor visuals in this music video, certainly look like parts of Northern California, and may even have been filmed at Prairie Sun recording studio where Bone Machine the album was recorded. The studio is located in Cotati California, about 90 minutes north of San Francisco and it used to be a chicken farm. Some of the songs for Bone Machine like Goin' Out West, were actually recorded in a barn, which give it the characteristic dry and raw sound. The whole feel of this album has a very Western-noir sound. Recommend checking out the video for 'Goin' Out West', where there are some scenes of driving through a desert landscape at the end. The part where he plays under the table, makes me think of when he used to play hoot-nights at The Heritage in San Diego between 1969-1971. Tom Waits is one of my favorite solo artists and has amazing work. Since he started his career in about 1969, until the present day, he has repeatedly shown he can do it all musically; rock, jazz, folk, blues, gospel, industrial, experimental, metal, avant-garde, vaudeville, polka and many, many more.
One of the most iconic videos i remember from MTV-times. Discovered Jim Jarmusch´s movies a bit later - what treats these people (Jarmusch & Waits) held in store for me...
I remember the first time I saw this video on MTV……I was enchanted. I’ve had a lifelong love affair with this man’s art ever since. Long live Tom Waits.
100% agree. A close childhood friend of mine with the same name as yours tragically passed too soon. Glad to give a thumbs-up in Tribute to my erstwhile friend and "Partner in Innocuous (though the Minister might have disagreed with that adjective ROFLMAO) Sunday School Mischief" who will live on in my Memory for as long as I'm breathing. Cheers and All Best, Sir! Happy New Year!
Happy 75th bday Tom, you're a damn national treasure.
地球の国宝です✨🌏
I second that, a true genius!🎤🧠🎩
Fo sho
I played this song when I turned 30. Then 40. And now, here I am at 50. How the hell did I get here so soon? Tom is a goddamn genius.
I'm 3 years behind you.... Seems like my 20s were just a few short years ago. Almost feels like time speeds up as we age
Posting 12-7-22. I'll be 60 next June 10. Where DID the time go?! Happy 73rd to Tom Waits and many more! Thanks for part of the lyrics "How the hell did I get here so soon?" I never knew what he was saying before.
It honestly seems like after 30 time just starts moving at warp speed.
Haha same, coming up on 47 goin on 18
Uh it's not his song lol
I just turned 63 and I still haven't grown up I still do the things I've always done..So if you think you are OLD REMEMBER YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE & YOU ALWAYS WILL BE YOUNG AT HEART.. YOUR OLE FRIEND..
46 here, couldn't explain it better. CHEERS!!!
57 here, and ur 100% right dude 😂
I just turned 23 and I feel old every time I pay alimony.
I’m 42 and I listen to this and his other songs when I don’t wan’t take a “toaster bath”.
Tx for ur words, old friend.
This actually isn’t a music video. This is Tom’s day-to-day life and a camera just happened to be there to see it
he's really fuckin big yo
So right
As a person who's 20s are almost over, who is still having a tough time reconciling myself with adulthood and aging, this song brings me to tears.
Just wait 'til your thirties are on their way out, kiddo . . .
@@couplakooks Or your fifties...
Next year, i'll be 30.
Hurts a lot.
Why is it you turn 20 but you hit 30?
@@darrelldourte9455 Perhaps because of Logan's Run.
Tom just saved my life for at least one more night. I am so glad he wrote this.
@@ardrielsjk3616 pretty self explanatory
Are you in your twenties? if so, hang in there. It get's easier. And you can find something if you want to. Of course you might need professionel help if it's a clinical depression, but so or so i'd recommend sports. And( controversial, i know, but) try magic mushrooms. But do so, when you are not in a bad or depressive mood and at a place you feel comfortable and if not alone then only with people you know and trust and don't bring you down (Just do your research). Not recreationally. I'm serious. It might help you to sort things out.
@@cprXcor nope. Ramones covered tom waits
@@cprXcor sure is
Art is that powerful. Try making some for yourself - no sense in giving up. Tom didn’t.
Tom Waits always sounds like a drunk performing on open mic night at 1am...and I love it.
He makes it work better than any drunk I've ever heard
The magic is that Waits didn't have to, but chose to sound like this.
@@KthuLew It shouldn't work but it does.
His collaboration with Primus was also great.
@@darntootin6423 i'll check it out later. Thanks for the tip
That clean tone OVER the distortion is amazing
The young and the old playing music together. Your adult self keeping your pure child self alive, that's how i hear it anyway. And there are many people listening to Tom Waits and in this comment section keeping that spark alive. Keeping that clean tone alive throughout their distortion. We should always be holding the hand of our younger self, our essence. Trouble is a lot of people don't realize that they let go.
@@alexwells6876 wow! Never thought of it like that. Thanks! That's amazing to think about.
Yeah Im curious how he got that effect
@@charliegrsgenius mixer
@@charliegrs it sounds like a semi hollow/hollow body electric guitar playing through a distorted amp, but the vocal mic is picking up the acoustic part of the guitar as well
How the hell did I get here so soon
This hit way too hard.
I hear "How the hell did HE get here so soon"
I was taking a class at the Old Town School of Folk Music here in Chicago. We were discussing projection of emotion in song, and I brought up this one. The instructor said "Exactly! Tom Waits is a million years old, but when he says 'I don't wanna grow up' you believe him."
😂 genius
Hell yeah
@@Evilakuuuuu You must be fun at parti- oh, wait. You don’t get invited to those because of comments like this.
@@Evilakuuuuu But it’s mine, and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to. 🤪
I mean, he was only 42 when he made this album, but he's always seemed old: as he says in another song, "look 47 but I'm 24".
75 and still a kid at heart! Love it.
No sorry sir but he is from 1949 .. so it’s 71 here this year.. I sorry if I am Nick picking but it’s gonna be correct.. I think 🤔
@@bacht4799 Right you are. I'm posting December 7, 2021, which is Mr. Waits' 72nd birthday. Here's hoping he has many more!
@@bacht4799 this person may have referring to themselves.
@@proned2stoned oh sorry I didn’t think of that.. my bad
I was so old then, I'm much younger now. --Osho, I think
As the saying goes, “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.”
My Nan had that on a wooden something hung I'm her room
Doctor Who when it was still good
I love the Ramones version of this song. This song has lyrics that today, at 44 years of age, make perfect sense to me. Thank you Tom Waits for making an old man emotional every time he hears this song.
Hey I'm 44 too and I am not an old man. Like Dylan said I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
I love the Ramones version of this song too
Whoa dude!! If ur an old man at 44.. I'm screwed!!! I'm 75. Trust me bro... live it right, bless as many people and friends as You can, and you can have some wonderful life ahead of you
@@JesseColter-e1u I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I've never heard a 75 year old man say "bro".
Sometimes I listen to this song and tears just fall out. I feel the song deep into my bone, adult life is hard.
Same
Try Song to the Siren , This mortal coil , I ran out of tears....
I'm with you on that. Thus song always fu ks me up. But I love it
Yes, but i think today's kids are much more deprived of some things that their elders had...It's very sad time for all generations today :(
I was driving home from a long weekend of drinking up in Chico state. As I was driving and thinking of my brother who recently had died I just burst into tears. Had to pull off the road and let it out. Thank you Tom for this gem of a song. It means everything.
The when "I see my parents fight, I don't wanna grow up" part gets me in the feels. My parents arguing and fighting made me want to live alone when I grew up. Now, I do.
Same. My grandparents, my dad and every woman he dated... I am not continuing that cycle.
Seen my grandparents argue with each other, seen my parents argue with each other... I tried to live with a woman two times, both times I ended up being the victim of verbal and emotional abuse. Being alone brings peace of mind. The world is not a good place after all.
@@gobsofgophergutsWow, I’m sorry that’s been your experience. I sincerely hope that you can find a soul as pure as yours some day, stranger. ❤
It's New Year's Eve 2024 and gods help us...but with Tom it always seems like that Great New Year's Eve...best time had by all. Hugs Tom
It's amazing to remember this video was in very heavy rotation on MTV and was a radio hit. Always loved this and had this record.
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things
that they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up
I am the slime oozing out From your tv set
I am gross and perverted
Im obsessed n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think Im delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozing out
From your tv set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozing along on your living room floor
I am the slime from your video
Cant stop the slime, people, look it me go
Frank Zappa
@@creamwobbly absolutely.
The world is run on the USA Federal Reserve Currency indemnified by a American TAXPAYER FHFA and FDIC
"Insurance Casino" the $2,000 TRILLION ISDA SWAPS Casino, every human activity known to man is "Monetized" in the
"Click Bait" World we are in since 2009 when the Obama Nation refused to dissolve the World's largest Casino in all of human History.
An ISDA regulated Casino in the DARK by the 1% Money Masters who can never be held accountable for 1-3% pure profits
annually on $2,000 TRILLION worth of annual 60,000 Hedge Funds.....
"Insurance Bets" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most fantastic free criminal money machine in Human History. 20 years ago considered a Capital Crime against HUMANITY, because a Casino is a criminal enterprise under the Laws of Nations and Humanity. Pure GAMBLING THEFT !
When the 20212 AIG trial concluded the Judge asked ex Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke what Law allowed the USA Federal Reserve to "Socialize" nearly $70 TRILLION in Worldwide
"Insurance bets fraud and bailouts" and
"privatize" the $300+++ BILLION in
FDIC broker fees in the USA in 2009 alone, Ben Bernanke
responded to the Court, ...."the Domesday Book".........800 year old Ex Parte British Crown Law......implying that as agents of the Government (Crown/King) and the levying and spending of the TAXES and MONEY of the (USA/English Common Law) World, they could NEVER be legally held accountable as
"Agents of the King and........God"........
for malfeasance with TAXPAYER MONEY.
or the ISSUANCE of that money in CRIMINAL or CIVIL proceedings.
Hence Lloyd Blankfeinn's amazing statement while CEO of Goldman Sachs at the time
"We are doing's God's work"...!!!!!!!!
R-A-M-O-N-E-S! RAMONES!
@@l.salisbury1253 Yeah, they did a great cover of this.
@@lorenzo6mm As a millionaire, I am well insulated from the unfairness that is bestowed onto the "little" people. God has a plan for each and everyone of us. Give mercy to the Lord. Thank you Jesus, for the fruits of my labor. Amen.
One of the best songs EVER!!!
Man’s a genius
3/8/2021 I turned ... 67 ..... today. 😳 😢 .... Always knew this song by the gods - *THE RAMONES.* 🤘Had no idea it was a cover & written by Tom Waits, no less! This song: forever one of my theme songs & at 67 ... I will NEVER grow up. Play hard, ignore rules, take reasonable risks. Life is too fckn short, kids!
Omg the Ramones! ,😍😍
Waits version is superior in every way. Not a slight on them
Its a great song but imo its not a typical Tom Waits song. So me too heard the Ramones version first and thought they wrote it. Anyway, I love Tom Waits and I love the Ramones.
Will u rply me I don't think :( I am suffering from negative folks around me who trying to make me like everyone else 🥺 I don't wnt to grow up but I don't give up
Thought Ramones wrote it lol. Seems like they should have. Guess they agreed
One summer in the late seventies we drank four roses bourbon all night. And listened eight albums of Tom, one or two of them double. And when the sun came up at four, we continued. Oh my god, I never forget that night and Tom´s music. Thank you, old man. Greetings from an old lady poet in Finland.
Tuula Maria Saarasdaughter Rauma Rannikko-Palttila Cool story, kiitos !
@@buddybeetle Hei buddybeetle. Where you live, in England or Finland. Now I very often listen my two albums of TW: Bone machine and Mule variations. And I´ve tried to translate I´m gonna take it with me. It is difficult but I manage because I´m a poet too. With best wishes from Maria.
@@tuulamariarauma7734 Hello Pretty 💖
That’s beautiful
Outstanding.
Coincidentally Tom shares a birthday with my best friend who unfortunately passed away at the young age of 20 in the beginning of 2020. Both him and Tom are born on December 7th. So listening to this song always makes me emotional because my buddy didn’t grow up. Rest In Peace bro
This song just popped in my head randomly today. Dec. 7, 2022. Hope your friend is at peace.
May his memory be eternal.
My daughter is born on December 7
She is a marathon runner. She too loves this song
Its so cool that this is Directed by Jim Jarmusch!
They’ve worked together a lot
@@bupobm Ya Down by Law, The dead don't die ETC.
buckethead222 love this video and those movies! Hope they do more together
Who else ? ?
Really?!? Awesome
I’m 62, just started paying this tune, fantastic finger picking study. I took care of my Mom in her last years, my father passed 5 yrs previous & i was away. I then took care of my Aunt for 2 yrs. My cousin & I are the last of our line & nobody will be here to take care of us. Growing old is no fun. It’s Dr apts every week, such a waste of time. Words of advice, empty out your house & have all your papers in order so who ever does find you has a simple plan to follow. My mother made us sell everything she had so we would not be burdened with it. She was very wise. ❤ Tom.
May God bless you both
❤
Tom Waits .... A magnificent freak of nature.. great songwriter and musician supreme... 😋
I'm trying to create music that is a mix of Tom Waits, Sonic youth, Black Sabbath, tera melos. Wish me luck. I might actually do it before I die.
The scream of "Stay around in my old hometown!" is epic. Tom Waits is impressively good at making it sound bad.
It's my birthday today.
Thank you Tom. My life would have been less rich without your fantastic music.
Happy 🌹 birthday
When I grow up... I wanna be Tom Waits!
Don't idolize anyone. Be good to yourself and don't take the Bill Gates 'vaccine'.
@ well, it's Tom Waits.... and he makes art dangerous.... real dangerous! Nobody sings a Cohen tune like Tommy!
Tom Waits will some day be recognized as the treasure he is.
the part he says folks turn into things they never want the only thing to live for is today hits home and a very strong statement
The Ramones covered this song,took me few minutes to remember.Awesome song Tom.
Watch Los Saicos
César Martín are you referring to the Peruvian band? They are brilliant.
Also, it’s “listen” not “watch”. Just a heads up.
A good way to remember is “watch” is with your eyes and “listen” is with your ears :)
Supersuckers did a version too, but none had this dystopian lunatic urgency.
@@onthewattle Sorry, my English is bad, I meant to listen, not watch, because Los Saicos don't have any live video.
César Martín that’s ok, mate!
Who is that in your PP?
Lyrics... When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up
Thank you!
Cheers!
Πατήστε σε κάποιο απόσπασμα για να το επικολλήσετε στο πλαίσιο κειμένου.
Thank you!
I think the 2nd last phrase is How the Hell did HE get here so soon?, which changes things a little. 😅
This and the Ramones cover are awesome, pure dinamyte!!!
Absolutely correct!!!
I've thought it was a ramones song for the last 20 years lol. I do like a few Tom waits albums but I didn't know he did this song
ive been working at a cemetery lately and this is my jam when im rolling up.
Greg Avila this comment sounds like a lyric from one of his songs lol
@@dylanthrillmour866 Thank you most of the time people just point out my spelling mistakes.
dream job!!
On my days off I ride the ruckus over to the cemetery to see the family. They are all there - all of them. I like to talk for a while, and so forth. Its kind of like a therapy session, not unlike a Waits record. By the way, cemeteries are quiet, and peaceful, and a great place to get away from living people. And during a pandemic the living people are the ones that you need to avoid. PSA, Miami. Bless.
@@Gregory_Avila I thought Tom Waits wrote that but without the punctuation mistakes: I've; I'm.
With this song and God's away on business makes me feel that Tom is a brother I never got to meet.
Word🤘🕉️
From the first time hearing his debut album listening to him sing "Ol'55" in 1973.
To this day Tom Waits is on my playlist....
after 40 you jus dont care to count them anymore.. just remember to live more like tom waits. the trick is to never grow up. greet each moment with the wide eyed wonder and innocence of a child and every day will be a holiday and every meal a feast. trust me in that it doesnt get worse, it gets better. the older you get the more you realize theres less time to focus on the bad and youll find yourself remembering more good times than bad ones.
Hello All
Hope All are well. Stopping by, it'sa my birthday🎉 5# and this tune came to mind. Didn't think I'd get this far..I'm grateful. Cheers at all🍻
People are going to miss him one day. New fans will want more but it will be too late for them.
Those who know... cherish!
Pretty sure he'll burn like a Phoenix and reincarnate or something along those lines.
@@savagebushranger7953 maybe he will escape
It's a great thing he's made so many albums. I've been a fan for years now and still haven't got through them all.
@@evygrany8592 hasn't he already?
fuckin yeah wen do
I just love all the Tom’s, from closing time to now…love ‘em all
Very creative video, he isn't alone
My dad died this year of the Covidvirus, out of nowhere while he just bought a new shop premises for his own company on the main shopping street in the town. Now that I lost my dad on just age 23, Tom Waits is in my head rentfree continuously playing this song.
I'm so sorry for you're loss my brother, my only advice is to listen to all the waits you can
Seems like folks turn into things
that they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today...
Genius !!!
I rarely share Tom's music, let alone my obsessive borderline compulsive love for his music, because people either understand Tom Waits or they don't. And VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HIS GENIUS! It reminds me of a secret that's in plain sight for everyone to see, but very few actually see it. It's the same thing with The Velvet Underground, and maybe a one or two other artists. I remember a so called friend of mine and I were having a conversation shorty after Robin Williams passed away. In that conversation, I mentioned Robin Williams was a die-hard Tom Waits fan. My friend Seth Stenerson said: "Maybe that's the reason why Robin killed himself." What a fucked off thing to say! I quite hanging out with Seth for many reasons. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
This man wrote some of the greatest ballads, and the most batshit crazy. And put them on the same album. Gotta love it.
There is always a hint of awareness even in the craziest of his songs. Sometimes you have to reach for it though, or the awareness is in the lack of awareness, satire. He never took anything seriously his whole life, it's the only thing he ever took seriously.
Got interested in Tom Waits when I heard Keith Richards played with him. First album was Blood Money, and the first song I ever heard was "Misery is the River of the World." I immediately thought WTF did I just buy...and ejected the cd. Eventually I put it back in, and listened to it. I now love Tom Waits.
Fantastic song ! Tom’s unique eccentric honesty is pure sunshine for my soul
Tom Waits is the ultimate example of freedom of expression. Fun, truthful, dark but true to who he is. Live life with no restrictions! xxx
I turned 55 yesterday and I still feel exactly like this.
Tom is an OG madman. I love him
You ever feel like you just never had enough time to soak it all in? Like there’s an entire portion of the past that’s right at your fingertips, seems so close but it’s extremely far away. Those beautiful times with beautiful people that will never ever happen again. It’s such an insane feeling nostalgia is. Love you Tom! 🤘
This was the last song I asked my Girlfriend of 4 years if she liked??Thank you Tom Waits changed my life.
Tom is very special
I never appreciated Tom when I was younger but now I over appreciate his genius. Damn I'm lucky.
Still living in my hometown in the house that I inherited from the folks. The neighbors across the street have spent the last 10 hours yelling on and off at their three little brats running around like mental cases. Brought me back to this song immediately when people pester me about "when am I getting married". The parents are arguing with each other on and off and their kids are out of control so I think it's inevitable the marriage is going to fall apart sooner or later. I don't want that in my life. A dead end marriage and divorce sounds like a good waste of 10-15 years of the prime of your life.
If that is considered "growing up" count me out!
Yes my friend.. takes a few years of lonliness, but eventually if one keeps watching his friends lives fall apart, fall into unhappiness, & despair.. and always keeps a meaningful goal to keep working towards, the lonliness turns to gratitude that he is no longer in that unreachable goal of living onily to please someone else. It actually does get better... ❤ blessings
An expression almost anyone can understand, delivered with wit.
35 year long fan.
This is still an amazing album ...
BONE MACHINE.
go get it now....your liver depends on it.
Hi Kids, I'm past 65 years of age. First heard of Tom Waits in 1979. Old buddy turned me on to 'It Ain't the Meat' song. He used to play it when my girl friend stopped by. LOL. Stay young kids, it's the only way to live.
It's incredible how much Tom Waits songs are in so much movie's!
Yeah, I just heard this song as background music in a movie and came right here to have a proper listen. The first time I ever heard this was on Bevis and Butthead.
@@benmayer5932 Jojo Rabbit?
@@willyuma8259 YES! You win a cookie! Actually, I couldn't remember when I was making the comment. Thank you! Getting old sucks!
One of those rare songs that keep you going when you´re really down. Thanks Tom.
Man this guy is MY KIND of genius!!!
HAPPY BDAY TOM!!!
it's insane how music can relate to generations decade after decade. I'm 19 and in the full fledges of living on my own and working my ass off just to live, but I'm still watching my favorite cartoons, listening to the same music, I still have all my hobbies. It feels like I'm fighting maturity and it scares me.
Growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.
@@mr.c4p, fuck yeah grow old not up is how I live. Ive got 30 years on grandmascat and I still laugh at evil farts, the filthy humour has only improved with time though
I'm a new fan of his, it's only been over a year since I discovered him. (As of this comment being typed, I am 21). And decided to finally give his music a shot after hearing a lot of other artists (musical and visual) credit him as an inspiration, and had my mind blown within the first few notes of, "God's Away on Business". I never heard something like it before then. It was then that I realized that his music was featured in some of my favorite movies I've seen growing up (Robots and Shrek 2, for example). I have been doing my best to listen to as many of his Albums as I can. (My current favorite of his is The Black Rider.)
I'm so glad I discovered him as I was entering my 20's, and before it was too late. Looking forward to (hopefully) hearing new music from this terrific artist.
Bravo...Next, please-thx. pimping in your ear * Tupac Amaru Shakur a.k.a Makaveli ...
Don't forget the one movie his music is in. I'd say it's name but there's two rules preventing me from that
it's never too late to listen to him. I heard Alice when I was 18-. everytime i listen to him it's like the first day all over again.
I just discovered this dude after i went to some art gallery in Burbank, i regret not buying the album, but thank you, UA-cam!
Never too late. He finds you when you need him. I was in my 30s.
This song is so simple but pure it's beyond a masterpiece. This is the kind of song that is as true for people now as it was 5000 years ago.
It's a simple song. It makes you wonder why you didn't write it but Tom Waits did and I'm glad for that.
This is a romones cover.
Don’t great.
Ramones
Done great.
Lol
@@askourchefs Actually the Ramones covered it three years after Tom Waits wrote it.
I don't think Tom ever grew up... and that's a great thing
Tom still dresses exactly the same as he did when he was 7. True story.
He's happily married with children.
Think what sort of a child he was then.
I. Love u tom
@@Ultramagnetic808
Fff
I remember listening to this with my friends in the 90s shortly after it came out. Everyone shut up and listened when it came on. You could just tell this was instantaneously a timeless classic. I hope people listen to this for the next thousand years.
im 63 i have all of tom waits records this song and way out west sticks in my mind
A year and six months before I hit my 40s and this is still my one and only national anthem...
Yep
Love it.
Died in my laughter.
Raised back up through my tears.
Greif is the elixir that brought me here.
The inside of Tom’s head is an amazing and beautiful place.
I’m 52 and this song is soo good! Makes me smile so much! I agree Tom! I don’t want to grow up!😄🤣❤️ don’t think I’m going to either!❤️🤣🤣🤣🤘
Tom is not a person, he is an angel dressed as a devil just to remind us that all demons are dressed as angels.
couldn't agree more
Have you ever seen Wristcutters: A Love Story?
@@LeahInAnotherLife No, I'm gonna take a look at it right now (I noticed Tom's there!). Thank you for the suggestion!
Happy birthday, Tom. And thank you for the music
I’m almost 60. So young at heart. Don’t grow up. lol. In USA. 2024. Close to election. Thanks. Great music.
Genius
Now that I'm over 40 this might be the single most poignant song lyrics to me in the history of music. Every single utterance is heartbreaking.
This and Summer Feeling by Jonathan Richman. Both so evocative of youth and innocence lost, they crush me.
Just learned of you. A friend. Andre. Awesome. Creative. ❤️
I'm what I'd consider to be a "new fan". I'm 23 and found tom from reading claypools biography and I'm gonna just say it. I've never been so happy to love a musician.
The art is incredible, he's deep, thoughtful and paints a better picture than any other artist I've ever met. Charlotte Kemp Muhl really is responsible for me loving this man.
I hope he tours so I have a chance to see a master practice their craft.
How is she responsible for you loving this man? Just curious.
@@yoshataylor-bourgea1076
When I met her some few years ago during the GOASTT tour she dropped the name and a quote I'd never forget.
"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better be careful around me"
Immediately I had to investigate. Eventually waits brought me over to cohen. Amazing how these things work!!
Great sense of humor too. He once said "reality is for those people who cant face drugs"
@@irkallaLustre Which is ironic given he has been sober for many decades now.
This is arguably my favorite TW song. Yes I argue with myself all the time. I keep winning too. Anyhow the lyrics here always get me. Thanks again Tom for this song for getting me through all the tough times.
I just came from "Hold On" and was thinking "It's a tough call, but I think this is my favorite Tom Waits song" then I click over to this one and I'm like "No, THIS is my favorite Tom Waits song" and it'll continue with that trend for every Tom Waits song I listen to lol I guess my favorite will just be the one I've listened to most recently
Try, in no particular order:
Tom Traubert's Blues (my personal favourite)
Heart Attack and Vine
Burma Shave
Downtown Train
Jersey Girl
Music doesn't require you to rank it.
The fact that makes this song great that it is a coming-of-age song sung by a 42-year-old man.
Hehe. Careful of Steppenwolf then.
Who sounds like he's 68.
age is just a number, happy are those who are 90 years old and remain lucid and jovial👍🏻
Not a coming of age tune, just a song for people of any age that don’t wanna grow up. I’m almost 64 y/o and I refuse to grow up.
@@markpetersen2469 Then you have an immature understanding of what it means to grow up
I never heard of Tom Waits until The Ramones did an awesome cover of this song. So I checked him out and....He is amazing!!!
This was the first Tom Waits song and video I ever experienced, back when I was small. I saw it on TV while sitting in restaurant attached to a library, sometime back in 1993, I believe. Definitely has a bit of a tinge of sadness to it, and I remembered this for many years as the video with the guy 'complaining about something'. I saw the video for 'In the Neighborhood' probably a couple of years later in 1995, but I kind of forgot about Tom Waits until 1999's 'Mule Variations' and the storytellers episode. When I started buying his albums in 1999, it was mostly in chronological order, with the exception being 'Bone Machine' after 'Closing Time'. The contrast in that 20 year period was huge. It is hard to conceive those 2 records were even made by the same artist.
A fun fact about this video, it was filmed the day before 'Coffee and Cigarettes', in which Tom and Iggy Pop met at a diner, like one in this video. It is the same diner set actually. Same lights, booths, decor and even the picture hanging on the top left is the same; but they replaced the picture of James Dean with one of the Golden Gate Bridge. Since the scene with Iggy was supposedly filmed somewhere in Northern California, this video may have been as well the day before.
The few outdoor visuals in this music video, certainly look like parts of Northern California, and may even have been filmed at Prairie Sun recording studio where Bone Machine the album was recorded. The studio is located in Cotati California, about 90 minutes north of San Francisco and it used to be a chicken farm. Some of the songs for Bone Machine like Goin' Out West, were actually recorded in a barn, which give it the characteristic dry and raw sound.
The whole feel of this album has a very Western-noir sound. Recommend checking out the video for 'Goin' Out West', where there are some scenes of driving through a desert landscape at the end.
The part where he plays under the table, makes me think of when he used to play hoot-nights at The Heritage in San Diego between 1969-1971.
Tom Waits is one of my favorite solo artists and has amazing work. Since he started his career in about 1969, until the present day, he has repeatedly shown he can do it all musically; rock, jazz, folk, blues, gospel, industrial, experimental, metal, avant-garde, vaudeville, polka and many, many more.
Haha My fave Tom song.I want this played@ my Funeral!😁🐨🌈🦘
Another perfect song from Mr. Waits. Cuts to the marrow every time.
Just right Mr. Waits. Thank you for the birthday song!
I remember watching this on TV as a little kid. Now I'm 38.
The ramones introduced me to Tom and I’ll be forever grateful.
Bone Machine has to be the best album ever made
One of the most iconic videos i remember from MTV-times. Discovered Jim Jarmusch´s movies a bit later - what treats these people (Jarmusch & Waits) held in store for me...
I remember the first time I saw this video on MTV……I was enchanted. I’ve had a lifelong love affair with this man’s art ever since. Long live Tom Waits.
One of the best songs and videos ever!
100% agree.
A close childhood friend of mine with the same name as yours tragically passed too soon. Glad to give a thumbs-up in Tribute to my erstwhile friend and "Partner in Innocuous (though the Minister might have disagreed with that adjective ROFLMAO) Sunday School Mischief" who will live on in my Memory for as long as I'm breathing.
Cheers and All Best, Sir! Happy New Year!
What an unbelievably beautiful and timeless song. I truly think it’s a masterpiece and speaks to something universal about the human condition.
Forever young and still the... grownupmost performer!!! He is incredible!
Truly one of the greatest artists of all time!👍❤️🔥🍻
this song, along with the Ramones' version, are my favorite music things ever.
Tom and Joey were apparently good friends
Great song and video 😊
Longer you're around, the sadder it gets
Number one in the hall of fame of music
So nice to finally have a good quality copy of this uploaded
Yeah the other video had like 10 pixels
Absolutely barking and genius at the same time.
God bless ya Tom!