Tom Waits - "Ruby's Arms"

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"Ruby's Arms" by Tom Waits from the album 'Heartattack And Vine'
Lyrics
i will leave behind all of
my clothes, i wore when i
was with you, all i need’s
my railroad boots, and my
leather jacket, as i say
goodbye to ruby’s arms, al-
though my heart is break-ing, i will steal away out
through your blinds, for
soon you will be waking.
the morning light has
washed your face, and
everything is turning blue
now, hold on to your pil-
low case there’s nothing i
can do now, as i say good-
bye to ruby’s arms, you’ll
find another soldier, and i
swear to god by christ-
mastime, there’ll be some-
one else to hold you.
the only thing i’m taking
is the scarf off of your
clothesline, i’ll hurry past
your chest of drawers, and
your broken wind chimes,
as i say goodbye i’ll say
goodbye, say goodbye to
ruby’s arms.
i’ll feel my way down the
darken hall, and out into
the morning, the hobos at
the freightyards, have kept
their fires burning, so jesus
christ. this goddamn rain,
will some one put me on a
train, i’ll never kiss your
lips again, or break your
heart, as i say goodbye i’ll
say goodbye, say goodbye
to ruby’s arms.
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[@roxy5588]

What a work of art from Tom Waits. Heart attack and Vine is so heartfelt and meaningful and compelling to ones soul. This album is perfection.

[@waterairindustry342]

Right now, it's the perfect moment to hear this. Perfect. The sadness and nostalgia are over-whelming. The tears agony and release. I don't know who is orchestrating this moment.

[@jonathanhoward797]

Hugs n prayers for u

[@waterairindustry342]

@@jonathanhoward797 Thank you Jonathan. That's very kind of you.

[@GioTube.]

Saddest song ever.

[@rubylougheedyawney9249]

I was that "Ruby" being dumped and broken hearted over 30 years ago and I played it so often.... I was told once it was the "saddest song" ever written, and for me, then, (not now) it was....

[@SubZeroCommander]

The background of these lyrics can be spanned out multiple angles: Over 25 yrs ago I was dumped by a woman I fell deeply in love with but knew her feelings werent the same. But she still called out to me in her weak moments & I made the train rides until I told her I couldnt do it anymore because it broke me apart !

[@brendoncooper4529]

Which song is the saddest now?

[@ClaimOfRightMuso]

... 'and I swear to God by Christmas time, there'll be someone else to hold you'.. I hope there was, is, Ruby.

[@ALEXISGNFR]

Many of us were broken but also we broke some hearts in our life's. We are all Tom's and ruby's in our lives.

[@davidzieglmeier1020]

Isnt the "marseillaise" the saddest song? I mean today in every western country fascism has the power, or is close before. And even in feudalism the difference between rich and poor was less extreme?

[@oopolo1454]

Damm Tom you made me cry.

[@markbeach2483]

Absolutely beautiful, Mr Waits you soothe my late night soul

[@JoaoFerreira-pj4me]

Tom, is the air who i need to breath!

[@alfasax]

Ruby. Alice, Martha, Tom Taubert...... Thank you, Tom Waits for all of it.

[@santoshrawal9186]

How about jersey girl and hope I don’t fall in love with you?

[@isetta4083]

@@santoshrawal9186 mediocre

[@ALEXISGNFR]

Rosie

[@laudibus1]

He was included on Rolling Stone's lists of 100 Greatest Singers and 100 Greatest Songwriters. In 2006, Waits and Brennan were ranked fourth on Paste's list of the hundred greatest living songwriters. -Neil Young, inducting Waits into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2011 Various artists have covered his songs. In 1973, Tim Buckley covered "Martha" and The Eagles covered "Ol' 55". Dion covered "Heart of Saturday Night" and "San Diego Serenade". Rod Stewart had success with covers of "Downtown Train" and "Tom Traubert's Blues"; Bob Seger covered "Blind Love", "New Coat of Paint", and "Downtown Train". Paul Young covered "Soldier's Things" on The Secret of Association (1985) and the Ramones covered "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" on their final album, ¡Adios Amigos! (1995). Johnny Cash sang "Down There by the Train", which Waits wrote for him, on American Recordings (1994), calling Waits "a very special writer, my kind of writer." Tori Amos covered "Time" on Strange Little Girls (2001); she performed it on the Late Show With David Letterman, the first musical performance on the show after 9/11. Willie Nelson covered "Picture in a Frame" on It Always Will Be (2004). Holly Cole released an album of Waits covers, Temptation (1995), as did Scarlett Johansson with Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008). Neko Case performed "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" on the tribute album New Coat of Paint (2000). Norah Jones included a song Waits wrote for her, "Long Way Home", on her album Feels Like Home (2004). Joan Baez covered his songs on Day After Tomorrow (2008) and Whistle Down the Wind (2018). Rosanne Cash, Aimee Mann, Phoebe Bridges and others contributed to Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (2019). Waits has influenced artists in other fields. Kazuo Ishiguro recalls how Waits influenced his novel The Remains of the Day: I thought I’d finished Remains, but then one evening heard Tom Waits singing his song "Ruby’s Arms". It’s a ballad about a soldier leaving his lover sleeping in the early hours to go away on a train. Nothing unusual in that. But the song is sung in the voice of a rough American hobo type utterly unaccustomed to wearing his emotions on his sleeve. And there comes a moment, when the singer declares his heart is breaking, that’s almost unbearably moving because of the tension between the sentiment itself and the huge resistance that’s obviously been overcome to utter it. Waits sings the line with cathartic magnificence, and you feel a lifetime of tough-guy stoicism crumbling in the face of overwhelming sadness. I heard this and reversed a decision I’d made, that Stevens would remain emotionally buttoned up right to the bitter end. I decided that at just one point - which I’d have to choose very carefully - his rigid defence would crack, and a hitherto concealed tragic romanticism would be glimpsed. Another author who notes Waits's influence is Ian Rankin: I already knew Tom Waits’s music, those soulful communications from the louche underbelly of the American dream, but nothing had prepared me for Swordfishtrombones. I first heard it on a friend’s stereo system, the pair of us transfixed by what was happening in front of our ears. It felt to me as if a vaudeville show was taking place in a scrapyard, the music whirling and clanging, Waits presiding over it all like a bruised but keen-eyed master of ceremonies. Rain Dogs added extra textures and refinements, laying its (marked) cards on the table with its opening track, "Singapore", a novel contained within two and a half minutes of controlled musical mayhem. By the time of its release I had left university and was trying to shape myself into a writer. I admired Waits’s lyrical vision and concision - the man was a born storyteller, stopping travellers who had wandered into the wrong part of town and compelling them with his words. (Die musikalischen Einflüsse auf das Werk von Tom Waits sind vielfältig. In seinen Anfangsjahren waren es hauptsächlich die klassischen amerikanischen Genres wie Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz, Folk und die Songwriter. Einen wesentlichen Aspekt seiner Kunst stellt das amerikanische Vaudeville und die Theatermusik dar. Häufig wurde er mit Kurt Weill verglichen, doch er sagte dazu: „Als ich diesen Vergleich das erste Mal hörte, habe ich Weills Musik [noch] gar nicht gekannt. […] Er nimmt eine schöne Melodie und erzählt dir furchtbare Dinge. Ich hoffe, dass mir das auch gelingt.“ In späteren Jahren nahm er selbst Einflüsse aus dem Avantgarde-Jazz, Rap oder dem Industrial Rock mit auf. Seine Musik wird gelegentlich dem Alternative Rock oder Indie-Rock zugerechnet. Der Musikkritiker Daniel Durchholz schrieb, seine Stimme klinge „… als wäre sie in einem Fass Bourbon getränkt, einige Monate in die Räucherkammer gehängt, dann nach draußen gebracht und mehrmals mit dem Auto überfahren worden.“ Da er sich stets konsequent den Hörerwartungen eines breiten Publikums verweigerte, wird er auch als der bei den Medien beliebteste Musiker jenseits des Mainstreams bezeichnet. Waits’ Texte - von den Texten der Beat Generation der 1950er Jahre stark beeinflusst - sind häufig lakonische Geschichten über Gestrandete, Säufer oder Huren. Sie scheinen Edward Hoppers Bild Nighthawks zu entstammen. Sie „… bieten das amerikanische Kino aus Härte und Herzschmerz: Hobo-Romantik, Highway-Melancholie, Tresen-Tragödien, wehmütige Verlierer-Geschichten, aber auch sanfte Liebes-Beschwörungen unter ‚schlechten‘ Leuten.“ In seinem „Selbstinterview“ nennt er als wesentliche Einflüsse in einer intuitiven Reihe: „Kerouac, Dylan, Bukowski, Rod Serling, Don Van Vliet, Cantinflas, James Brown, Harry Belafonte, Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thornton, Howlin’ Wolf, Lead Belly, Lord Buckley, Mabel Mercer, Lee Marvin, Thelonious Monk, John Ford, Fellini, Weegee, Jagger, Richards, Willie Dixon, John McCormick, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, Enrico Caruso.“ In demselben „Selbstinterview“ zählt er so unterschiedliche Titel als wichtig für sich auf wie Louie Louie, Strange Fruit, Georgia on My Mind, Moon River, Danny Boy, Waltzing Mathilda, Nessun dorma, Greensleeves, das Thema aus Rawhide und Hava Nagila auf. Den Musiker und Maler Don Van Vliet alias Captain Beefheart, mit dem er bis zu dessen Tod 2010 eng befreundet war, bezeichnet er als Lehrer und größtes Vorbild. Die Zahl der Künstler, die Kompositionen von Waits - oft auch über Jahrzehnte hinweg immer wieder - interpretiert haben, geht in die Hunderte. Zu den bekanntesten gehören in zeitlicher Reihenfolge Tim Buckley, Lee Hazlewood, Eagles, Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Bob Seger, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Holly Cole, Bon Jovi, Ramones, Meat Loaf, Tindersticks, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Tori Amos, Neko Case, Jennifer Warnes, Solomon Burke, Lucinda Williams, Lambchop, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Queens of the Stone Age, Pearl Jam, Linda Thompson, Steve Earle, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, Scarlett Johansson, Joan Baez, James Taylor, M.I.A., The Pogues, Bat for Lashes, Primus, Melissa Etheridge, St. Vincent, Jon Lord, Elbow, Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Peter Gabriel, Brad Mehldau, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Bettye LaVette, Rebekka Bakken, Ron Sexsmith, The Avett Brothers, Gerd Köster, Ed Sheeran, Chris Cornell, The Gaslight Anthem, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rosanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Aimee Mann, Jamie Cullum, Andrew Bird, Jeff Tweedy und Tom Morello. Es ist eine Ballade über einen Soldaten, der seine Geliebte in den frühen Morgenstunden schlafen lässt, um mit dem Zug davonzufahren. Daran ist nichts Ungewöhnliches. Aber das Lied wird mit der Stimme eines rauen amerikanischen Landstreichers gesungen, der es überhaupt nicht gewohnt ist, seine Gefühle offen zur Schau zu stellen. Und irgendwann kommt der Moment, in dem der Sänger verkündet, sein Herz breche, das ist fast unerträglich bewegend wegen der Spannung zwischen dem Gefühl selbst und dem enormen Widerstand, der offensichtlich überwunden wurde, um es auszusprechen. Waits singt die Zeile mit kathartischer Großartigkeit, und man spürt, wie ein lebenslanger Stoizismus angesichts überwältigender Traurigkeit zusammenbricht.) Ruby's Arms Lyrics Übersetzung: Ich werde all meine Kleidung zurück lassen, die ich trug als ich bei dir war. Alles was ich brauche sind meine Eisenbahnstiefel und meine Lederjacke. Als ich mich von Rubys Armen verabschiede, obwohl mein Herz bricht. Ich werde mich davon stehlen durch deine Jalousien, denn bald wirst du erwachen. Morgenlicht hat dein Gesicht überflutet und alles wurde nun zu blau. Ich halte mich an deinem Kissenbezug fest, es gibt nichts mehr das ich tun kann. Als ich mich von Rubys Armen verabschiede. Du wirst einen anderen Soldaten finden. Und ich schwöre bei Gott in der Weihnachtszeit, wird es einen anderen geben, der dich hält. Das Einzige, dass ich mitnehme ist der Schal von deiner Wäscheleine. Ich hetze durch deine Kommode und deine kaputten Windspiele. Als ich mich von Rubys Armen verabschiede, ich verabschiede mich von Rubys Armen. Ich schleiche mich durch den dunklen Flur und hinaus in den Morgen. Die Obdachlosen im Güterbahnhof haben ihre Feuer brennen lassen. Sagte: „Oh Gott, dieser verdammte Regen.“ Wird mich jemand in einen Zug setzen? Ich werde niemals wieder deine Lippen küssen oder dein Herz brechen. Als ich mich von Rubys Armen verabschiede, ich verabschiede mich von Rubys Armen. Writer(s): Thomas Alan Waits Lyrics)

[@sp2435]

Beautiful

[@iii-qs7dd]

Beautiful song

[@ThePiersidente]

O Wind, of Winter comes, can spring be far behind?

[@niallmcevoy5518]

Fabulous songwriting & delivery

[@MrJLcooljams]

That song lyrics Is making me cry and I'm feeling 💔😭😭😭😭

[@ezcat106]

... and your broken wind chime .. that line hurts me

[@TheBabadook616]

Why did this make me cry, goddamnit :'D

[@LinoKilian]

Tom, you made me cry 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@marcoferrikito]

What to say........the perfection, another dimension

[@JoaoFerreira-pj4me]

Their words break any heart. Tom, is unic. Thanks God!

[@MrJLcooljams]

Ruby's arms makes Me and Jose and panchito cry 😭

[@solaroberto7435]

LOVE

[@blzbob7936]

I trust Tom so much, it doesn't even matter I can't hear each word. I fucking know each word is right.

[@hoedanook8181]

Jammie ....

[@antoniomelillo6274]

Good

[@MrJLcooljams]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@alisonschnuck3170]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MrJLcooljams]

😭

[@MrJLcooljams]

Me and JP and bodhi the stork and pip and Freddy and gizmoduck and cuco Lori and gayo are 💔😭😢😥😓😞😖😣😩😫

[@LinoKilian]

5:25 The end

[@LinoKilian]

5:19

[@MrJLcooljams]

Goodbye Trump farewell Sophie Me and JP and bodhi the stork and pip and Freddy and gizmoduck and cuco Lori and gayo are gonna cry 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@katevalles942]

Op

[@NCbassfishing24]

"Overpowered" in gamer slang. Basically, they think the song is great.

[@Marcelman30]

Beautiful