Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"

"Hell Broke Luce" by ‪@tomwaits‬ from the album 'Bad As Me,' 2011
Directed By Matt Mahurin
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[@birdflox1337]

Artist: Tom Waits Genre: Righteously angry old man

[@dauntemesman1688]

damn straight

[@dergibog27]

100% We call them white Republicans in Colorado.

[@birdflox1337]

​@@dergibog27 oh god, my arch-nemesis... politics Edit: I wrote this when I was 16, criticizing someone for bringing up politics on an inherently political song is stupid. That being said, these are not "white Republicans" I'm talking about, during the war they were instead labeled "communist hippies". Not one political party made any attempt to end anyone's suffering then or now, don't affiliate with them.

[@srbrant5391]

Best genre ever.

[@petmalulofi1831]

This is the best song even though it's been 7 years

[@Destinychanged]

This is the best pro-soldier / anti-war song ever.

[@skeetinyoureye6484]

Its actually a suicide note hes reading

[@shan9886]

Fortunate Son

[@Destinychanged]

@@shan9886 The comment was subjective

[@Marco_Venieri]

after war sucks by red crayola

[@davidbryden7904]

Didn't know it was a "genre", but yeah! 👍💚🌲👽✌️

[@jacobangeles5539]

"I'm gonna find a home for this." - Pete Castiglione

[@vVintorez]

i’m just now realizing that catiglione is almost the same as castle. maybe it’s just me

[@charlesbr5287]

@@vVintorez I looked it up, it means Castle in italian

[@gagemead27]

@@charlesbr5287 Actually Castillo is Castle in Italian.

[@charlesbr5287]

@@gagemead27 True but I found this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castiglione_(surname)#:~:text=Castiglione%20(Italian%3A%20%5Bkasti%CA%8E%CB%88%CA%8Eo%CB%90ne%5D,'%2C%20'small%20castle'. Which basically means that Castiglione means Castle

[@jakemarsh8967]

Actually in the comics Pete Castiglione is Frank's real name I think

[@BROCK-hq9dn]

I listen to this every night before I go to sleep... Tom Waits voice scares all the nightmares away.

[@sethkeown5965]

I should be worried for you, but I'm not sure how much.

[@Manjustman_25806]

Same, except he scares me into behaving myself

[@carltaylor4942]

ROFL but true! :) :)

[@joeswanson7502]

Listen to God’s away on business it will put nightmares in You. It’s a Tom waits song by the way

[@captindo]

I use cannabis for my nightmares, I get where you're coming from, cheers from Canada dude

[@ArtemusCain]

This is the most metal non-metal song ever.

[@sharkboy85]

Tom Waits is the heaviest musician that doesn't technically qualify as metal.

[@troychin7978]

It is a metalloid. 😂

[@Mrobo04]

@@troychin7978 and that's the chemist of the turn 😂😂😂

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Avant-garde metal

[@karlclarke]

yeah but more industrial i would say

[@thomashanson6607]

I hope everyone realizes this song is about Jeff Luce, a combat Marine who committed suicide when he got home. Semper Fi.

[@ramairgto72]

Thomas Hanson Serving, it sucked quite a bit, but civilian life is... ..., I was "more" as a 12-B. We really become something different in the military. Feel like im just waiting to die, rather have got it in uniform, rather then destroying my body for ungrateful nations.

[@FireFoxBancroft]

Geoffrey "Lucy" Luce

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

ramairgto72 Wake up, do things to prevent your death, don't die, go to sleep.

[@bitchininthekitchen9906]

Had no idea. Thank you for pointing that out.

[@batosai85]

Thomas Hanson may that marine rest in peace and give raise hell in your after life.

[@kreepin_on_ah_kvm_vp]

The story behind this song makes sense of why they put it in the Punisher. Awesome.

[@byventrex4012]

@@myth4997 yea first episode. Disney+ It's my favorite show

[@patricksleep9787]

@@byventrex4012it was actually made by Netflix, Disney got the show in there platform because the copyright licenses ended so they could move the shows in Disney +

[@genereaver]

Oh my fucking god, I KNEW I recognized this song!

[@Tom_Quixote]

A really good war song. And as all good war songs, it's an anti war song.

[@ihateyoutube8789]

There's so good medieval ones...

[@danielross7983]

Read Siegfried Sassoon's WWI war poems... you'll love them.

[@gracie99999]

awesome..some tink anti war mean anti soldier but this far from trut justifiable war okay but....

[@bo2_435]

Starting a war is depraved but you have to be ready for one

[@chuckthebull]

and yet as a Great song reflecting the insanity of war especially pertinent to today's Russian xenophobic Putin bogeyman syndrome of the obsessive psychopathy of the western imperialists that they are all now suffering from part in thanks to Hollywood's constant drama depictions of sacrosanct USA always fighting the "evil" Russians because the establishment status quo and MIC uses FEAR as the foundation of their greatest protection racket ever devised by man so that some elite jagoffs can profit off of human suffering.

[@DancingRockInc]

This is like if David Lynch directed "Up".

[@UltraAporia]

This guys post is severely underrated

[@m.miller8011]

exquisitely witty sir

[@peppermillers8361]

if it took place during a world war or something.

[@Marxfan58]

legitimate "lol"

[@deathbywmd]

a

[@SirSmurfalot]

Best description ever: His distinctive voice was described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding as though "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car".

[@Felix-wi7nb]

I always have to think about an old angry man yelling aggressive in a trash can xD

[@Bartman954]

Also read that Tom's voice was like "dipped in honey with razorblades and then soaked in Jack Daniels"

[@violentjsgurl]

Accurate as fuck

[@barryfreed6868]

Tom waits=drunken cookie monster

[@alexthomas8418]

idk man i like to say he sings like an alligator man

[@georgestacey9558]

"I miss my home, I miss my porch" that hits hard

[@TheBeachAndTheNelson]

I dedicate this song to a good friend of mine who tragically took his own life last month . All his friends and I nicknamed him Army Bill. He was an Iraq war veteran. When he came home he had severe PTSD and received no help from the VA, and of course received no help from our country's broken mental health Care system. His wife divorced him and took their kids from him, he ended up homeless and ended up becoming addicted to Meth. SMFH I still can't believe he is gone. Rest in Peace both William "Army Bill" Schwartz and Jeff "Lucey" Luce. Thank you both for your service. But most importantly , thank you both for your honor and bravery.

[@solidbox1719]

You have my condolences.

[@EasternCCCorp]

His service and sacrifice will not be forgotten. My condolences.

[@ickytoucan0056]

You have my condolenses brother..

[@RogueBoyScout]

My respects. Same thing in my Country. The politicians "thank them for their service", once a year, and leave them on the streets to rot on all the others. And now my Country wants to boost it's military capability, because the bosses of the nation's in my region are having a dick measuring contest. And you know what? I have no problem with that per-se, but they better treat 'em right when the leaders all kiss and make up in the future, when they shake hands on the trillion dollar economic "partnerships" as a product of their boredom of playing with their "toy soldiers"... Because if history has taught me anything, it's that a forgotten generation of soldiers, will become the next generation's "Democratic Republic of Gangsters With Tanks", if you keep on leaving them in the gutter when you're done

[@OGGHOST364]

Bro that made me tear up. He's in a much better place now, what a LEGEND

[@kommandomarksman3545]

This song is about a Marine who committed suicide after the war. His name was Jeff "Luce" Lucey and this song was inspired almost word for word by the suicide note/poem found clutched in his hand.

[@AnnaLVajda]

Great tribute.

[@liammarshall-butler3384]

Is there any place we can read the poem?

[@Bambino_60]

Kommando Marksman word salad 🥗 STFU

[@Bambino_60]

Jet Set Tomato 🍅 easy Pendejo...

[@MrToddino]

@@Bambino_60 cuida lo que digas weon ;P

[@deadleaves5913]

RIP Jeff Luce. You are loved and not forgotten.

[@baronsaturday9560]

Yeah...

[@karlwa641]

Sounds pretty forgetten to me

[@niceone4370]

@Liam Connor Jeffrey Lucey

[@tanglelane5506]

@@karlwa641 just shut up

[@iamkeri113]

@THICC BOI The dude the song is about

[@cameronevertsen1526]

I like to imagine the strange interlude at 1:54 is his way of mocking the pathetic parades and ceremonies that are thrown for them after returning home. “Throw them all a beautiful parade instead” Powerful shit here man. God bless our troops

[@royepic3504]

Wow I didn’t even realize that’s amazing detail

[@noerddanger2687]

Fucking awesome!!!

[@Chinothebad]

With that line I can imagine them all being hollow compared to how veterans need more than just some welcome back ceremony. Especially when knowing how they come back with all sorts of health problems and PTSD on top of how the VA isn't a great system.

[@TBonifide]

I thought he was attempting to emulate a siren or something lol

[@bradleyblock7540]

I thought it was a badass song to use in Punisher. Until I understood the context. War taking its toil on the mental health of these troops. They come home broken. Which is precisely why it was used in Punisher. Castle was a broken, angry man. Great song.

[@kithranen1542]

Yeah that scene is what brought me here. You're right, the song adds so much context to the scene.

[@smokeflame3823]

i figured the song was fucked when it was used in that scene and thought it definitely was towards frank that he had a good home till some shit went left

[@At0mHeart]

Its my time to be the lyrics guy [Verse 1] I had a good home but I left I had a good home but I left, right, left That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong I guarantee you’ll meet up with a suicide bomb And Hell broke luce Hell broke luce [Verse 2] Big fucking ditches in the middle of the road You pay a hundred dollars just for fillin’ in the hole Listen to the general every goddamn word How many ways can you polish up a turd And left, right, left, left, right Left, right Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce [Verse 3] How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk And Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Left, right, left [Verse 4] What did you do before the war? I was a chef, I was a chef What was your name? It was Jeff, Jeff I lost my buddy and I wept, wept I come down from the meth So I slept, slept I had a good home but I left, left [Verse 5] Pantsed at the wind for a joke I pranced right in with the dope Glanced at her shin, she said nope Left, right, left Nimrod Bodfish have you any wool Get me another body bag the body bag’s full And my face was scorched, scorched I miss my home I miss my porch, porch Left, right, left Can I go home in March? (March) My stanch was a chin full of soap That rancid dinner with the pope And left, right, left [Verse 6] Kelly Presutto got his thumbs blown off Sergio’s developing a real bad cough Sergio’s developing a real bad cough And Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce [Verse 7] Boom went his head away And boom went Valerie, huh What the hell was it that the president said? Give 'em all a beautiful parade instead And left, right, left While I was over here I never got to vote I left my arm in my coat My mom she died and never wrote We sat by the fire and ate a goat Just before he died he had a toke Now I’m home and I’m blind And I’m broke What is next

[@highfive6095]

Thanks!

[@user-ho5dl2ge7g]

In the 5th verse he is singing the "nope" twice, the only thing needs to be corrected. Thank for the lyrics anyway!

[@At0mHeart]

@@user-ho5dl2ge7g i can't really hear it u sure? And my pleasure friendo

[@AnnaLVajda]

Yeah it sounds like his explanation to someone asking him questions who can not really grasp how awful things are and that a person can only take so much so Tom did a really good job with the video expressing it artistically. All these guys are far from home that's why they drag their memories around and the vultures are circling just waiting for them to die he kept going and going till the graves and death and misery made carrying hope for home impossible things just got worse and worse. People go through hell in life and sometimes they don't make it out the other side.

[@Moshpitscum]

Thx

[@NoName-dd5vq]

"Listen to the General, every goddamn word. How many ways can you polish up a turd?"

[@Handsomegargoyle04]

Depends on the type of poo.

[@normalin1stofhisname]

@@Handsomegargoyle04 Only if the turd in question is a coprolite. Otherwise it's a waste of time and effort.

[@kenambo]

No. But you can roll them in glitter ;)

[@christian0725]

@@Handsomegargoyle04 if it’s liquid diarrhea then there is no polishing that type of turd

[@mrhappy9056]

It's a common phrase for superiors in the military to use for grunts.

[@unknownmaskman]

jeez, just hearing his voice under that metallic sound of guitar, it brings shivers to my spine.

[@kaylynking2322]

My uncle Bill has been heavily HEAVILY medicated since he came home from Vietnam with medals and accolades because the one and only time he missed his meds he went out into his neighborhood with a shotgun convinced he was still there, my uncle Jackie also served and had both his kneecaps burst from impact he was a paratrooper. Every time I hear this song that's all I can think about.

[@gthegrimreaper4940]

Damn.... that is fucking deep...

[@dionysusincarnate5713]

Love and respect for your uncles and EVERYONE who was there.

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

This is probably the most angry that I've ever heard Tom. I like angry Tom.

[@eushak_3340]

what about "goin' out west"

[@chrisclarke226]

Or Angory Tom if the Yogcast 🤣

[@mannk6843]

tom

[@jamesklieve4620]

@@chrisclarke226 Bam :D

[@jestermindcrime1773]

sounds fuckin on fire .i love it

[@Zirc0nium69]

Some bands make one good album and lack inspiration to make another one. Tom Waits makes music for 50 years and still finds a new style at 63.

[@CarnalKid]

Mark Wright Sugar, Sugar by the Archies was at the top of the charts for four weeks in 1969. There's never been a ton of good music on radio or television, it just seems that way in retrospect, because we recall only the best of the era.

[@Zirc0nium69]

That might be true, but there certainly was a time where there was less media buzz and a music style couldnt spread so quickly, so there was more of a market for curated radio auditions where the dj would seek out music by hand and according to his taste. Nowadays radio has much more become a pure business and it doesnt pay off as much to do this kind of thing when everyone can just find any music on the internet. The golden age of discovering music randomly by radio has mostly ended, we are now in the age of discovering amazing music on the internet. So something dies but something else grows from the rubble :) I do have a sentiment for old school radio hosts though, there is more romanticism to someone with a smooth voice saying a few things about a record before it plays.

[@CarnalKid]

Otto Toksik Yeah, but we are the DJ selecting based in personal taste. It is a positive change.

[@Zirc0nium69]

CarnalKid just saying, i get why people might miss the radio days. Of course its objectively better to have so much more choice.

[@CarnalKid]

Otto Toksik My mistake, I must have misunderstood the tone of your post.

[@lymb3914]

One of the most in-your-face anti-war songs ever

[@user-th3ll8rl7i]

Whoever created this video is an artistic genius. There are so many subtle levels to this, you gotta watch over and over again. And of course old Tom Waits, one of the greatest American song writers around.

[@BrownHairL]

I was so happy to hear this over the whole sledgehammer, cement mixer body tossing thing.

[@macdhomhnaill7721]

Lucas Cottica Silveira Lol 😂

[@JackTheCreeper357]

As soon as the Netflix subtitles said “Hell Broke Luce by Tom Waits playing” I sat straight up in my chair. When Frank is ripping them apart and I heard that first line “I had a good home and I left,” I nearly woke my daughters singing it. Fortunately I stopped myself. So glad this song is getting some exposure, overdue as it may be.

[@sebastiangomezletelier1367]

Gotta find a home for this thing

[@nathangriffinvader5606]

just finished first episode came right online to find this song. As soon as it started playing in the episode i was like yeah...

[@DeaconShadow]

I let out a little shout when the song started. it was fucking perfect.

[@a.d.millennium943]

As a metalhead, I must say that this song is heavier than even some of my favourite bands have to offer. You're a legend, Tom \m/

[@isaacbilbrey9271]

The song comes in hard enough you could throw down hard as fuck

[@notamuffin]

What's funny is that this isn't even metal, it's rock. But still awesome.

[@jhmjmhh]

@@notamuffin No, this is Tom Waits

[@gregnephin461]

keith richards on guitar!

[@davidnissim589]

@@gregnephin461 and Flea on bass

[@kojakkojak1984]

This is absolutely BRILLIANT ....... THIS NEVER GETS OLD. REST IN PEACE JEFF

[@scottmoyer3854]

This song makes me cry. Editted to mention that the video is like visual PTSD. In fact, this is what PTSD probably sounds like.

[@mariyatakeuchi9009]

“Im gonna find a home for this” Christ that line gives me chills

[@tomwaits264]

It has been a perfect playing for me having a lovely and awesome Fan like you, thanks for your love, I have you mostly to be thankful for 🎻🌹🎻🌹🎻🌹

[@d3athreaper100]

@@tomwaits264 dude....cringe

[@txmetalhead82xk]

I flinch every time at the implication of that statement.

[@d3athreaper100]

@@chrism6446 that's not actually Tom waits ......he's acting like him

[@i.d.9754]

That roar was awesome

[@JoeytheJoeyX3]

This guy. Just... just this guy. Tom Waits could growl into a microphone and it wouldn't matter what he'd say. We'd still listen. Fucking love Tom Waits.

[@lilaj7418]

JoeytheJoeyX3 soundcloud.com/moonbeamer1972/letter-to-mr-tom-waits

[@dantedelpapa7154]

JoeytheJoeyX3 ahahah, sounds like you're describing kommeinenzuspadt!

[@JoeytheJoeyX3]

***** It is, we just accept it because he's Tom Waits. I mean, have you seen the man in interview? I want him to be my grandfather sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.

[@til.k.]

Normally not the genre I listen to at all, but I love this song and come back regularly just to listen to it. Lyrically as well as musically absolutely inspiring

[@garcalej]

Through every battle, every privation, every atrocity, it is the thought of home that motivates a soldier to go marching on. They drag it behind them everywhere they go. It is the heaviest burden they carry, and it only gets heavier with each day that passes. Then one day, like a waking dream, they’re back there, and they realize home is gone, that they were not living a nightmare but carrying around a fantasy. They realize there is no going back; that they are, from this day to the last day, strangers in this world.

[@patgray5402]

This guy makes death metal look like a sunday church service.

[@hellscion7]

apples and oranges.....

[@R1scorpio]

john webster, I'm pretty sure he knows that already... satirical comment bruh.

[@CommisarHood]

Yeah the song and video looks like what you'd see and hear if you had dropped acid in the middle of a pitched battle this makes Moterhead seem tame.

[@Elmo18782]

Crazeenerd Motorhead*

[@CommisarHood]

Elmo18782 Well there goes my rock fan credentials but you get my point at least right?

[@fdgdfafassff]

All this time I thought he was saying " hell broke loose" but I just realized he said "hell broke Luce " and it makes the song that much sadder

[@minutemadevideos2135]

viciousKev Lucifer as in the devil maybe?

[@kaiganfullerton5724]

The song is about a United States Marine lance corporal named Jeffrey Lucey. He was a veteran of operation Iraqi Freedom, and suffered from PTSD. When he came home, he hung himself with a garden hose in his family's basement.

[@forgottouseincognito808]

+@@minutemadevideos2135 Jeff Lucey or "Luce" was the name of a marine who hung himself after coming back from Iraq

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

@@Hoot Hell (War) Broke (Destroyed/PTSD) Luce (Marine Jeff Lucey). The play on words, the song lyrics... Very powerful

[@mitchconnor8764]

@@Hoot what are you talking about in the song it says he was a chef before the war named Jeff

[@Cronenbergia12]

Song is more relevant than ever as each day passes.

[@Damagedbyher]

This song perfectly embodied Frank Castle. Glad they used it for Punisher. RIP Jeff Lucey

[@ezrabiggins90]

Best anti-war song in a long, long time.

[@lusdog]

ezrabiggins90 It isn't an anti war song.....check out what Waits himself has to say about it. Just because something points out the horrors of war, doesn't mean it is anti war. War is necessary because people suck at life.

[@cubkin13]

Aaron Lussi The song is likely partly based off of Jeff Lucey, an Iraq vet who committed suicide after suffering from PTSD and trauma from his actions while serving overseas (particularly his claim that they were forced to shoot unarmed Iraqis). There were a number of articles about him on NPR and in local papers, it was the subject of a book released in early 2015, and the case motivated his family to campaign for reforming veteran support systems to destigmatize mental illness.

[@johnnynogood8089]

Aaron Lussi Anti-war song!!!

[@DrsJacksonn]

Aaron Lussi Anti 'horrors of war' then.

[@ImprovisedSurvival]

Chelsie Sutherland Was he a chef before?

[@pxmonkeederp]

RIP Jeff Lucey. Semper Fi brother, hope you found your peace. If you're going through a rough time and need help, reach out to somebody. Silence is a killer.

[@kitpalmer1583]

@The Holocaust is Hogwash never let yourself believe that. in the highly unlikely event that you dont have any sort of therapy or counselling available in your area, you can find some online as well as information on techniques to deal with on what you're going through. keep pushing on, mate.

[@mercenaria9092]

I was able to find a good therapist through my local V.A. chapter

[@mercenaria9092]

it's never a sign of weakness to ask for help, sometimes it's hard for us soldiers to remember this

[@chrisfire5535]

@The Beginning of Wisdom I feel ya' brother. I attempted suicide in my barracks room. Was found seizing and foaming at the mouth. Unit cared about me for about two weeks before they started throwing the bus atop me. Long as it ain't making someone's NCOER or OER look good, noone gives a shit. Especially in the 11B world

[@eldritchowl1061]

Instead of death to the killer how about make him go through therapy and see himself as a monster and want to say sorry knowing it helps no one and he can't ever fix it no matter what he does

[@hogfry]

He sounds like he has two barrels of 100year aged Tennessee whiskey for lungs and all the words hemmingway ever wrote down for vocal cords... I am instant fan! Especially because I get what he's referencing. The Death poem of Jeff Luce is one of the most powerful things you can read. Everyone should... at least once.

[@asphyxia5583]

Where can you find it?

[@sethkeown5965]

I will now.

[@101Volts]

Your description's not far off from how Tom's voice has been described. Just add in the cigarettes, and the part where his voice was also run over by a car.

[@davidbryden7904]

@@101Volts I d heard it as "...and dragged behind a garbage truck. ", but.. 🤣😶‍🌫️🥂from Cali ✌️ 👽 💚 🌲 s 🌏☮️🛸

[@luckieblackkat]

He is also an actor, noticeably in Mystery Men and Bram Stokers Dracula. I have heard his music featured in Robots and Shrek 2.

[@yt_Ajay_]

I've listened to this song a bunch of times, this time it made me tear up with anger.

[@TheMrarthas]

As a veteran, I very much appreciate this song. Thanks for posting it.

[@cindycruzquinn666]

Thank you so much for serving our country sir 🙏❤️

[@ioanjenkins7014]

@@cindycruzquinn666 he might not be American...

[@ep4539]

Thank you so much for your service. This family is very grateful for each one of our vets ♥️

[@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689]

Yay , I haz Frostmourne and Ice cream as someone who never had the slightest interest in joining up to do any killing for my country, I appreciate this song also. Very much so!

[@loqutor]

All of you thanking him for his service have completely missed the point of the song.

[@oORoOFLOo]

"What the hell was it the president said, let's give him a beautiful parade instead"

[@grimtopia4804]

Also that walk 3:19

[@grimtopia4804]

Shows exact expression for "I am pissed but want to be sneaky about it"

[@hishambibi3984]

i don't think anyone's still listening to this massive badass massage ...

[@agenda2154]

A video that depicts the life of a soldier is very difficult and this hit the nail on the head. You don't carry the country, you drag it with you because, the foot prints you left behind arnt equal to the trail left behind.

[@jasonbornonthefourthofjuly1351]

As a PTSDd-out war veteran this song is fucking awesome... rest in peace Lucey ... lyrics are crazy and brutal,

[@gregwarwick8655]

Thank You sir

[@jamaldominicbarr7379]

I hope you're still with us.

[@nagualmaxcough]

so goddam epic. tom waits is badass as fuck

[@CourtlySeaDog]

I love his videos, but they are kinda odd

[@rider3117]

Наталия Кобрарвота this just weird

[@starlimitz2]

This man speaks for all us veterans

[@anthonyparker3569]

I'd never go to war but this song is a perfect tribute to real pain.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

I hope you don’t vote or complain about politics then if you won’t fight for your country.

[@Tyrannosaurine]

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus ​​⁠you do realize that there are things other than murdering innocent civilians that you can do for your country, right? I find it interesting that you referred to it as “defending” your country, because as far as I can tell no American soldier has been at war “defending “ the country in almost a century. They’ve been the aggressors, occupiers, invaders, war criminals, …but defending? No. I don’t necessarily feel the same way as the person whose comment you sent such a thoughtless and trite response, but you must know that war is almost universally reviled, and we are living during a time when we were at war in the Middle East for decades under false pretenses and the only people who “won” anything were weapons manufacturers and modern day oil barons. Furthermore, I think you’ll find that the children of all those soldiers who were sent to die in the sand are going to be reaching the age that they’ll start having something to say about it, and you might want to think about how you approach the topic going forward. How do you know the person you replied to isn’t the orphaned son or daughter of a dead US veteran? Seems to me like you would be pretty out of line, as their parent obviously sacrificed for you, and the child did as well growing up never knowing them and shit, they didn’t even have the choice that you did/do. The world is very rarely black and white. There’s a million shades of grey and thinking/speaking in absolutes is a fool’s game. Our own leaders including a recent president don’t even respect the military they rely on, how can you hold a random stranger to some standard when a recent president has said denigrating things about a POW war hero and mocked the dead veterans while standing over their graves on a military holiday. Your energy is focused on the wrong people. Or whatever, you do you. Personally, I hope that I can do better.

[@homeinvasion8615]

​@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvusnothing screams loving your country like going to war for imperialistic purposes/making the military industrial complex even richer the mad baron you named yourself after would call you an idiot

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@homeinvasion8615 a nationalist absolute monarch would call me dumb for advocating nationalism? Neat hot take bro bro.

[@ebaulabola9100]

"I'm gonna find a home for this"

[@DCFixxer]

NNNOOOOOOOOOOO-

[@willieearles3151]

WRAGHHHHHHHHHH (plftttt)

[@theclone3831]

Ebaula Bola hammer time

[@Rekaert]

Waits could release anything at this point, and it wouldn't seem strange for him to do so. The man's a genre all to himself.

[@Ful-OGold]

What is next !

[@imaspoon4522]

@@Ful-OGold Yes, I would love a new album, after sooo many years. Ten years at this point!

[@kruegan2976]

loving how the instrumentals really capture that "scared, tired, and alone in iraq" sort of feel

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

This hits hard as fuck.

[@gavinbonner567]

Never saw the punisher, but Tom Waits In 7 psycho paths was incredible. This guy is just genuinely artistic.

[@thewildcard4869]

RIP Jeff Luce, thank you for your service

[@FrankieSaitta]

@The Wildcard . Is this amazing song based on a soldier named Jeff Luce? Just wondering.

[@fjwisock8]

@@FrankieSaitta a Marine, he committed suicide do to PTSD

[@somethingnew5670]

What exactly was his suicide note

[@yobama5288]

@@somethingnew5670 The song lyrics.

[@somethingnew5670]

@@yobama5288 ye I get that but is there like an actual note online or something cause this makes me sad cause I'm suffering from depression and this connected with me and it was more of a why question I guess

[@nativeMD4373]

Tim waits did right by him writing this song. Speaks on many levels

[@tedwojtasik8781]

One of Tom's best tunes, so damn out there and raw.

[@rivertrash9862]

This song has such a unique feeling. It's about as dark as it gets, but lights a fire inside you.

[@EverendeverGroup]

The greatest testament to this man's abilities is how recent all these posts are, considering this song is 5 years old and I first heard of him in the 1970s. Genius crosses all demographics and decades. And thank all of you who've just raised my opinion of humanity a bit this evening.

[@malloriesomerset5012]

Tom is timeless, music this good can't ever die, I'm 28 and I love it, I have a 2 year old son and we listen to Tom constantly, Tom will reach across centuries

[@Oops-All-Ghosts]

Good music is immortal. Therefore, Tom will be able to siphon its power and live forever. Hopefully.

[@GrymsArchive]

First time I'd heard of Tom was back in like 77-78? on a show called Fernwood 2 night doing one of a favs The piano has been drinking. Hooked me then and there!

[@EverendeverGroup]

Fernwood Tonight?! Shit, I just had an especially vivid flashback to "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"! Thanks for the buried memory cattle prod. That was fun.

[@stephenstewart7972]

Lazarus Overman I heard a song of TOM Waits' on "Homocide: Life on the Streets"

[@christopherrussell2611]

Lots & Lots of my ga friends just loved Tom, his music & lyrics - Tom Waits WAS part of our connection. Love to everyone out there. What a spectacular musical visionary. Hope it’s possible to see you again in London Town, Tom. Slanthe, JaneR

[@goldenhog]

i think i'm finally getting tom waits.

[@abnerjameswilkerson1876]

I come here when I can't get drunk or high and the anxiety, headache, or ringing in my ears won't go away. Then I think about punching a goddamn politician.

[@asurasyn]

Same. Too many people don't get that music isn't optional for some of us.

[@ToneSoCooL3]

I stood next to Tom for an entire performance of a blind African blues artist. Never said a word to him but we grooved out the entire show. Didn't feel the need to say anything but enjoying a night of music with Mr. Waits was something i never thought would happen.

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Man, I’d really love to get one more album from Tom before he eventually dies.

[@vangoghsear8657]

One of the greatest songs on war.

[@wilsonblauheuer6544]

sixty year old dude rockin the house

[@Oops-All-Ghosts]

I hate you forever; have a +1.

[@MarkArandjus]

This crazy fuck released like two dozen albums (one of them was one three goddamn discs long), he's pushing sixty, showing absolutely no signs of stopping, and what's more he keeps getting better. The man is a powerhouse!

[@BrianMcKinny]

He's 65 today, and more prolific than ever! Love this dude...

[@letsrock12345]

One of my favorite songs and music videos

[@seanfreese2496]

Ex combat vet airborne, 3 tours… this song hits hard.

[@ElDelJetpack]

Welcome Back, Frank

[@ThelateDomC.]

David Jetpack Great Reference

[@CarlosLopez-ip7ku]

Jjajajaja

[@buik2510isback]

He really deserves a "comeback"! And this is his personal song! Fit's AWESOME!!! :D

[@mrrizzo2603]

Don’t think they’ll continue the show best two fucking seasons I’ve ever seen of anything

[@mrblonde609]

You should check out "Franks wild years".

[@hippijade]

How satisfying it must be to be Tom Waits. To have the gift to express verbally and visually, what you're feeling, to have been recognized as the talent you are, that you can be your own artist in all your own forms, on your own terms.

[@jacobfoss7783]

2:06 this scene gives me what can best be described as chills.

[@connorbarnes8697]

One of the few men who could win a growling match with the devil himself.

[@davidchase9424]

A true artist of the man who suffers. Thank you

[@TheGuyMullins]

this is the most appropriate video for those that served are serving and being served... guy mullins

[@timothyedsall9424]

Best voice in music

[@Layla-gh5ij]

This song is the definition of “how many times do YOU have to teach US this lesson, old man?”

[@tbalciunas333]

Fun Fact : Music critic Daniel Durchholz described Tom's voice as "sounding like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."

[@branphillips9546]

An accurate and glorious summation.

[@likeriver]

This is one of the most surreal videos I've ever seen. Really captures your emotions.

[@slisbtor4ok]

If you like surreal videos, you should check out Michel Gondry's music videos

[@Asho00o]

slisbtor4ok or David Lynch ?

[@terrygreen2243]

HELL BROKE LOOSE !

[@Hielkehh]

"I"m gonna find a home for this..."

[@jorgeluissouza5760]

Frank Castle: MODE ON

[@DalkCsoy]

No mercy dude!!

[@hazapples251]

RU-SSOO!!

[@eatyourcerealnumber2693]

It’s Pete castiloigne

[@user-vy8sx8nm6v]

@@eatyourcerealnumber2693 SMH you need to watch it before you assume his name is pete

[@douglassoria2505]

@@user-vy8sx8nm6v he's being sarcastic wey

[@BlindRunner187]

"Glanced at her shin, she said 'nope.'" Thanks for that uncomfortably accurate summation of my love-life in your song about the madness of war, Tom.

[@missmeadowjewelry6216]

God damn this song is heavy

[@sargonixvalechek2084]

Tom illustrates the human condition completely transparently thru eyes that have seen and a suffered soul

[@irishboy0909]

His voice sounds like it's been chain-smoking cigars for twenty years.

[@Ms.Fowlbwahhh]

irishboy0909 that’a the voice of a real man

[@josh420masterB]

Nah man, it sounds like his vocal chords were removed and run over by a steam roller on a gravel road, pickled in a jar of whiskey and then smoke dried over a gasoline fire. That's the most accurate way I can describe it.

[@kyrastube]

Terry Gillam said that Tom sings the songs of the angels with the voice of the devil. I think that's fitting.

[@svensk69]

"Wipe them down with gasoline, til' their arms are hard and mean" - Singapore, T. Waits

[@kissaukkonen3348]

Josh Bates that Is the best description ever

[@AA1319A]

This song is so fucking epic. I just discovered Tom Waits today.

[@gregchick21]

Going out west video on you tube... the earth died screaming, heart attack n vine, hang on st Christopher, rules...

[@dominicpelle7841]

Good on you dude... ..start in the 70's and work your way up, you won't believe how many epic tracks there are.

[@gregchick21]

"Whats he building in there? " is a good one too, if your into poetry...

[@derekrhoades2861]

Heart attack and vine, God’s Away on Business, hold on, come on up. He has great ones.

[@disgruntledfishbellycoloredMAN]

this is bloody fantastic..Tom, should have gotten an emmy..or an enema...or some type of award...love it so much

[@ebraheemfredericks5736]

Enema?

[@sjoh104041]

No words. Only sorrow for those who were expendable. While those who sent them are wallowing in their wealth, may they rot in hell.

[@InAverySilentWay]

May they rot in hell. Amen.

[@straightjacket219]

Keep that energy for the next few years those oligarchs are still in power

[@bowsmed]

Man, Tom's instrument is his voice. It's just so amazing.

[@delirious2974]

This song came out in the punisher episode 1 when Frank kills those 3 dudes at the construction site! It was fucking intense!!! This song fit so well to the scene, i loved it!

[@xxsniperboardxx9432]

King Conor FUCK YEA HE PUNISH THEM BRUTALY

[@McGruder25]

Knowing the Origin of this song you can hear the rage of the man who wrote this poem channeled through Tom Waits because he's not here to express it anymore.

[@dagmawiasfaw5294]

This song is intergenerational. what a masterpiece!! What a wonderful time to be alive and listen this song.

[@MrSirDrew]

Lyrics I had a good home but I left I had a good home but I left, right, left That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong I guarantee you'll meet up with a suicide bomb Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Big fucking ditches in the middle of the road You pay a hundred dollars just for fillin' in the hole Listen to the general every goddamn word How many ways can you polish up a turd Left, right, left, left, right Left, right Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Left, right, left What did you do before the war? I was a chef, I was a chef What was your name? It was Geoff, Geoff I lost my buddy and I wept, wept I come down from the meth So I slept, slept I had a good home but I left, left Pantsed at the wind for a joke I pranced right in with the dope Glanced at her shin she said nope Left, right, left Nimrod Bodfish have you any wool Get me another body bag, the body bag's full My face was scorched, scorched I miss my home I miss my porch, porch Left, right, left Can I go home in March? March My stanch was a chin full of soap That rancid dinner with the Pope Left, right, left Kelly Presutto got his thumbs blown off Sergio's developing a real bad cough Sergio's developing a real bad cough And hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Boom went his head away And boom went Valerie huh What the hell was it that the president said? Give him a beautiful parade instead Left, right, left When I was over here I never got to vote I left my arm in my coat My mom she died and never wrote We sat by the fire and ate a goat Just before he died he had a toke Now I'm home and I'm blind And I'm broke What is next

[@Boadiccea94]

I think it's the best song about horrors of war. Thanks to The Punisher series, I really love that song.

[@pikeywyatt]

been there thanks tom.

[@rAsphkA]

Superb song!

[@callmelucky3414]

This song is inspired by a man named Jeffrey Lucey from Belchertown ,MA who went to war and came home in 2004. The VA didn't offer the help he needed for his PTSD and alcoholism. The wait was too long for a bed. He lost himself and then lost his battle with his demons. His father found him on June 22, 2004 in the basement of their house. He hanged himself. RIP Jeff Lucey. Thank you for your service

[@MilkBreakMinecraft]

"Can I go home in March!?" wow

[@El.hombre.contrario]

Is the best song ever. I'm metal drummer, and this song, make me up,make me great,make me big. Thanks Tom for this song.

[@nopenop1495]

He sounds like he has a village of chain smoking elves living in his throat.

[@nickel9962]

gold

[@srbrant5391]

_Brilliant._

[@noneofyerbisness8702]

He's *been* a chain smoker for 60 years.

[@aerowashburns6004]

Jesus I cried at this comment

[@kierafurneaux3172]

That's because he does 😂