totally from a songwriter's point of you: FA sounds like a poem that was
later set to music. i think that most of the SAT words here are used rather
[and maybe intentionally] awkwardly and verbosely, as if the character in
the song had heard them from the ''cultured'' and were trying to sound
''elegant'', like a bum trying to pass for a gentleman, if you know what i
mean. maybe TW did write FA -- as a character study of sorts.
wallyK, np: ''infected'' by the the [this a day completely devoted to the
80's]
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Asunto: Re: T. Waits "Foreign Affairs" NJC
Besides being much deeper than anything else on the CD
Here are such words as:
juxtaposed
apprehending
transient
Characteristically
Etc.etc
That's why I'm curious about some of his other CD's.
Ken
