Tom Waits - Innocent when you dream

[@displaychicken]

I’m amazed at Tom’s ability to be both an incredible lyricist and also wildly experimental arranger. He is a very complete artist.

[@ThatGuyTube]

Tom Waits wrote some of the most beautiful songs ever, it's a shame that most people can't get past his voice

[@lilith74able]

I loved Tom Waits since I was 13. I’m soon 45 now and the love just increase. This song and this performance is the best I ever heard.

[@ElmundotheGreat]

Me to its just a perfect song, we should have been friends.

[@lysetteandel9225]

LOVE Tom Waits I had this song played at my funeral. oh wait...

[@teecee3866]

that's f-ed up.

[@letsif]

One of the absolute great singer songwriters. A great artist.

[@marymillspaulos]

Nothing is better than this. I love Tom Waits

[@angiulillo1968]

This is really the most beautiful song that I know. It makes me cry every time. I heard it for the first time many years ago in the night at the radio and was so impressed that in few weeks I bought all his CD's. Thank you, Tom!

[@luked.bensley1157]

We’ll I’d say you need to listen to more music

[@angiulillo1968]

@@luked.bensley1157 😂Actually, I listen to music all the time, I bought many hundreds of CDs and I like different kinds of music, not just this song. But TW is TW!

[@rootd22]

One of the few true "Artists" in the music world. He isn't out to make money or become famous, it has always been about the music

[@Cowseph]

Thanks for the song Vin

[@mylulac]

I worship Tom! He's been my all time favorite for the past 20 years. A true genius!

[@1chriscarlone]

one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

[@anononomous]

This song has such an odd but deep emotional resonance. It always catches me off guard.

[@peter2336]

Tom always speaks the truth !!! You are innocent when you dream.Sweet dreams everyone !!!!

[@mylulac]

I've been in awe for many years, no one compares to Tom, I will love him forever!

[@thedarci1368]

I absolutely love Tom Waits......

[@robinderoux7716]

Coolest cat of them all!

[@mylulac]

I love him so much! He's been my favorite since the 70s. Such a genius rare talent!!!! I travel great distances to see him live, and it sure is worth it!!!!

[@fangpili]

I've watched this video countless times and it's fascination never leaves me. Just love the voice, performance, lyrics ... perfect Tom Waits.

[@anitahansen6801]

Lianne Anderson we are in our 70s we were excited and thrilled and amused to see & hear Tom for this appearance on TV since then he has always been special to our family. thank you for your unique talents Tom

[@Gameboy3DS]

Thank you Binyot for showing me this masterpiece.

[@landlordtom4735]

What a great performance of a great and touching song. Thank you!!!

[@mylulac]

Pure bliss! I so love him, I will never get sick of him. I have loved him since the "70s and this song after hearing it a ton of times still gives me chills and tears.

[@danmartinazzi]

How can you dislike this?? Masterpiece !!!!!

[@jamesedge5158]

10th time they took it down. Thank you for putting it back up. - Milkman Dan

[@jamesedge5158]

Still innocent when I dream

[@elenikantaris9505]

Such a beautiful song. Thrown in with such a performance. .Beautiful

[@WaterSucks21]

Heard this on CBC radio. Absolutely love it!!!

[@mljohnson72]

Fantastic. This, too, was the first song I'd ever heard of his, and it flipped all my switches. I'm so glad there's Tom.

[@fourfriedchickens]

I've been in love with Tom Waits' stuff for many years and this song is always never far from the front of my mind...

[@ivrunini]

'It is such a old feeling The fields are soft and green It is memories that I am stealing Bur you are innocent when you dream' Words are difficult to get if English is not your native language... But Tom Waits is so moving, I can't keep now to play it again and again... To the man I love!

[@KoolBand]

I watch this almost everyday. What an amazingly powerful voice he has.

[@angelinabrescia9593]

This guy is just all around great ! Talent, personality, etc.

[@musicmike1960]

Tom is just wonderful and an inspiration to listen to...

[@chicajoey]

big fan for years and years.

[@DonnieRez]

I was Blessed with seeing Tom at the Beacon Theather in NYC with Leon Redbone.Tom was has Always captured my imagination since the first time I heard him and I Love his still!

[@mookiemu]

Man that just brought back some serious memories! Tom was the man when I was in college. This video tells me that I have to update my Tom Waits collection. I have tons of his albums on LP and no record player!

[@hashimotokobayashi2244]

Tom is one of those chosen few who can turn shower singing into a masterpiece

[@vashmty]

Thanks Dinty

[@countarchvile]

you're fast

[@dalcon555]

i had to priviledge of meeting tom waits, and he's a down to earth guy and and amazing to talk too

[@tijanska]

I love this song sooo much! It's perfect!

[@DezrahBlinn]

This is the first Tom Wait's song I ever heard, and I've never been the same. ...my god...it's full of win.

[@kkblandford]

possibly my favourite live performance by anyone

[@JohnMcCash]

All the so called musical stars should queue up and see this man and see how it,s done. Most probably the best in the business. He never fails to bring a smile to my face or a tear to my eye. Different league !

[@txabibilbao]

Glorious Tom ......so good it hurts !!!

[@nutmeg42]

Ok so I looked it up and it is him. This is 20 years old. Making me feel old, because I clearly remember buying this album around the time it came out.

[@keitel10]

Genius!!!! This song is in the final scenes of the film "Smoke" from Wayne Wang. Unforgetable.

[@godly74]

I've never gone from "oh god what is this?" to "I love this man this is so incredible" so quickly

Evo i Tom Waitsa. Legendarna Pjesma!!!!!!!

[@thefenton77]

my wife and i had our first dance to this at our wedding. so, so good. tom waits for no man! thefenton.

[@almadora]

the wild unafraid best. thank you.

[@cloversweed]

Running through the graveyard we laughed, my friends and I, we swore we'd be together until the day we died..thanks Alison...:))) very nice lyrics

[@wildrolf]

imagine a duet with shane macgowan and tom waits!

[@mrkrinkle72]

"its memories that im stealing" tom at his very best!

[@johnfinbarburke]

i love this man

[@inshirngekickt]

Oh..this is making me so happy.. I love this guy

[@Arnadath]

Clicked the like button, 5 times, just to be sure

[@dadaimiza]

Thank u so much 4 posting it.

[@silvanomantovani1868]

Galleggiare tra le stelle in questo viaggio interplanetario in contemporanea con l'innocenza di un uomo che ha saputo e sa cogliere l'afflato divino dell'anima mi rende degno di partecipare a questa condivisione e le lacrime non bastano a lavare la pelle che trema di passione la lunghezza di un sogno infinito. (S.M.)

[@lifeinpictures]

When newspaper headlines and the daily 6-midnight grind starts to get me down, I stumble over Tom Waits, his name takes on new meaning knowing how he truly waits, patiently, for me to re-stumble over him and he sings his whisky soaked philosophy and eat it up with a dirty spoon.

[@66flamer]

I LOVE THIS SONG SO DAMN MUCH!!

[@gillessotty8156]

OH LA!!! OUI COMME TOI 66flamer merci à Emmanuel Beart qui me la fait decouvrir

[@bondaley]

True! And we are the brave ones who listen.

[@R1DDL3RS]

Yeh, must have been great to hear this on a radio, Just great It's perfect to know of him even if others don't

[@bscondict]

Profoundly beautifull !

[@georgiasavorian]

i love it. Great storytelling.Theatralisch!

[@vicchan85]

L uomo più incomprensibile del pianeta. Ma adoro 3

[@dominikmarta]

God bless you ,Tom

[@tfranc347]

I sang this to my girlfriend once while we were going to sleep with the same voice and she got scared and made me sleep on the couch XD

[@alassinsane17]

tfranc347 I need to know you

[@shelleykolody7069]

😆

[@johnasaro5841]

Love Waits and this song . I get looks from my friends when I play Tom !

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Wrong girlfriend. Oops !

[@MrDecksels]

I once did something similar to my ex girlfriend, only I spoke with a Smeagul/Gollem-voice and said:"Now I can whisper sweet little words in your ear, in the dark."

[@boru1982]

ya another great storytelling

[@bondaley]

Wow, he looks so young here and yet he sounds so old! You definitely have to have a different taste to enjoy Tom Wiaits. He reminds me of an old blues singer. As gravelly as his voice sounds, it comes from somewhere deep where only demons dare reside.

[@pruneface83]

Before I went out to celebrate my 30th Birthday I just wanted to do one thing that made me really really happy - this was it and I'm so glad I did. :)

[@djangizkhan9654]

First heard it in the Movie Smoke when I was 13.....Since then I was on the Journey to find it!!!!

[@MelancoliaI]

LOVE this. Like most, first heard it during the ending of Smoke.

[@cdnlady7]

He is brilliant!!

[@TheWoodencrow]

I sing this to my daughter as a lullaby. The nurses in the hospital thought it was a very pretty song.

[@MassimilianoBultrini]

This is a very very very very very good song...

[@mrpiki]

one of the songs of my life

[@angelinabrescia9593]

This guy is great man !

[@ToufoProductions]

"You are innocent when you dream" is such a nice sentence...

[@WBmilkmandan]

Still the bedtime song for my friends, be they 3 or 50. Really appreciate this song

[@HoyleMarten]

We all "steal" memories by being there. Memories that would have been better without our presence as the heartbreaker. But we are innocent in the intentions of being the lover...innocent when we dream, that is.

[@annsander]

fantastic ... thumbs high up ..much love ann

[@angryfyce]

Yes. Tom Waits is yes.

[@howzcat1]

my dad's favorite too...by extension mine, since i grew up listening to this :) pure genius. along with dylan, the last true poet

[@gs212.]

Po prostu cudowny artysta :)

[@Woodythehobo]

aaaaahfantastic!

[@Swordfishstick]

Just wanted to point out that the video reply by "Peyrson" is one of the loveliest Waits covers ever. Don't miss it. :) Great song.

[@mookiestinks]

i love tom waits.

[@lennycohenfan]

Oh. Just the BEST!

[@autonomedia]

This guy is the best ever

[@sillybilly972]

I don't even like this, yet I can't turn it off. I think I'll listen for a while longer

[@TheNellamaria]

Fantastic!

[@LukeHelmsworth]

My grrrl and I were fortunate enough to have caught his performance in Eugenius in like ninety-nine. He is one of a certain breed for certain, genius.

[@emmetgirl]

once as i was leaving a commune in virginia, a man who i had somehow failed to meet the entire time i was there sang this song to me in the back of the van, and then i sang him shiver me timbers, and then he told me that wireless internet makes it very difficult if not impossible to do magic in north america.

[@DRFW1962]

This is my karaoke (Larne a few years ago was a particular triumph). The pubs never have any backing, but once you rehearse the rest of the pub, it flows naturally. Everyone assumes this must have been written a hundred years ago. They get it very quickly and chastise those that don't join in.

[@GlobetrottingMusicologist]

I think I've said this before about Waits, it's so weird, it's good. :) He sure grows on ya.

[@Lisa4703]

So Fantastic!!!! :)))

[@anetchi]

Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz 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." How very accurate!

[@dgfutg]

@BilisNegra I was not joking, but the Tom Waits-era is over now, thankfully. They're great albums, but hearing them 500 times kind of takes its toll

[@66flamer]

my birthday is today....love this song. 47. im insane but im breathing.

[@66flamer]

@Glenn Kirste i dont know. purple? 7?

[@spurcross]

This song was in a William Hurt film called 'Smoke'. It fit the film to a T. If you like Tom and you like quiet, contemplative little indie films, you will like Smoke

[@TheNellamaria]

fantastic song...

[@wait4waits]

@AlanAyazyam You 're dad was a very enlightened man....you are very lucky...and you are right...pure genius.