Tom Waits - Falling Down Lyrics

Trying to scrape Scarlett Johanssen out of my ear.

There's more soul in this track than in most neighborhoods.

No son pocos quienes consideramos que esta canción debería ser declarada patrimonio de la humanidad, no solo por el aire pegadizo sino por la universalidad del texto: nostalgia por el derrumbe de cuanto amamos… Cuando te estás derrumbando, derrumbando/ Cuando te estás derrumbando, derrumbando, derrumbando/ Olvidaste que todas las rosas no llegan en domingo…

I think it would be an honor to cover a Waits song 🤘🥰

Scarlett johanson? Hahaha.

Beautiful song, still makes me cry...

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This song was therapy for me ten years ago. Full throated fathomless relief of the past by repeating this song about 20 times. Hard to describe

brent r my favorite sad therapy song come from small change and blue valentine

I love Scarlett picked this at all let alone what she did to it.

heres the real guava juice
https://www.youtube.com/user/aynakoitsroi

folks may cover his tunes [bet he glad more cash ]but you and i know if its tom waits its tom waits .and no one ganna do it better

Holly Cole cover is worth a listen

Trump likes Tom Waits. He can't be all bad.

That asshole probably confused him w/ John Waite. Or he just likes Rod Stewart's Downtown Train, and someone told him it was a Waits song. Or he heard Springsteen do Jersey Girl, and the same thing happened. And when you say, "He can't be all bad", I sure as hell hope you mean Trump can't be all bad because he likes Tom, and not that Tom can't be all bad because that lunatic scumbag Trump is a "fan"...because that would be insane.

Trump could run his own Tom Waits Appreciation Society, and he'd still be a piece of shit, imo. I don't give a damn who Trumps like...makes no difference.

Magic comes in a multitude of guises. This is genius.

Always hits the right spot.

sounds keith richards , the kind of stuff he would write i guess :) anyway good stuff

She wants you to steal and get caught

Just sit back quietly and listen...

well i dont know anything about this

You can't say that now. In for a penny in for a pound.

Here's the deal about Scarlet Johanson's song vs Tom Waits: Waits elicits a feeling. Johanson elicits a feeling. They are similar but not synonymous. That's the beauty of covering a song. One may take aspects of the song and reinterpret them to make a new meaning that may be more or less relevant to the generation. Waits's music is timeless in my eyes. Johanson's, on the other hand, has a very short lifespan. Which is the biggest dissonance between the two styles.

Anyone covering a Tom Waits song is just adding a layer to the texture of Waits. Nothing is taken, little is gained.

Scarlett Joahnsen did it good tho.

@Neil Wilson Yes, and it is so funny to read all the people bitching about her lack of a 'singing voice’ considering that the original singer notoriously also lacks a conventionally ‘good’ voice. Both versions are still great.

Why is everybody comparing Scarlett's version to the original one? 
I think that she did exactly what celebrities are supposed to do: INSPIRE people.
You may be great at doing your job and that could be all. Or you can use your fame to "spread the word" about different topics: politics, culture, social problems, environmental issues etc. That's what she's doing, and it's really admirable.
So you can like it or not (though it's undeniable that she has a beautiful, deep, raspy voice that you can hear better in other songs) but you have to appreciate her effort.
Overall, I love this version but I enjoy listening to Scarlett's one too and I think it's a good homage, although I don't like the background, it's too noisy and tends to cover up her voice.

I will always love this song so much… I covered it, but of course as a girl you have to modify it because I just cannot get the Tom Waits sound into my voice ;)

I was unaware that there was a cover of this until reading the comments -- but I'm not surprised. Patty Smith and Neil Diamond covered "Downtown Train," -- I wager that Tom Waits is the Third most covered artist, after Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan...

Emily Brodbeck I'm pretty sure that Springsteen also did a cover.

Emily Brodbeck Bruce also covered it

His musical instrumentation is so powerful and so perfectly sets the mood for his voice and those wonderful lyrics.  I have heard no one else like Tom.

Perry Mike I sing Tom at karaoke I have a deep gravelly voice I do Tom well at least what they say karaoke

Vocal sandpaper. not that that is a bad thing. its got soul

So much better then Scarlett Johansson's cover, but at the same time I don't hate on her covering an artist she likes. Hell, it might lead to younger kids learning about Tom Waits.

@madmick17 Her cover is quite good.

+madmick17 I learned about Tom Waits through a stand up comedy set, so I would say it certainly would.

+madmick17 I don't have a huge musical background and being an immigrant on top of that, I simply never heard of Tom Waits until I read about ScarJo cover

Believe it or not I'm actually quite fond of Scarlet's cover. But yeah, I get the meaning of your comment. I'm just glad that almost ten years later we'er still talking about this beautiful song.

Wife was a huge Tom Waits fan so infected the rest of the family - to the extent that it is painful to listen now she has passed.

I do like Scarlett Johansonn's version though, it has a touching
naïveté to it.

I do very much like Holly Cole's take on it though :-)

this is just beyond genius. a true artist.

@Crashoverall i just recently discovered the genius of tom waits your words are so true.

@mario64guy HAHA! Finally, someone who gets sarcasm!

@PatBB333 Absolutely not!

@peanutblitz love that you mentioned joe strummer in there, to me he is up there with tom in that he can use the english language as more than just words, which is a very rare talent.

@echoside190 yes but he kinda made this song for her also "scarlet and maine"

@LewisDobsonScottEYT i like the ugly girls version more too, it s very nice, but it s also live here on youtube and it s horrible, they ve improved her voice on the record a lot . but give a fuck, the record s great and that s it

this is a nice Lucy in the sky rip off

YouTube recommends me Falling Down from Selena Gomez... No thanks YouTube

@echoside190 WHAT!!! That's crazy talk! By the way the original Planet of the Apes with Mark Wahlberg was much better then the remake with Charlton Heston!

@madmick17
Waits made the original, she did a cover.

@LewisDobsonScottEYT

Whether you think it's better or not, this is the original that inspired her to make a cover. Why don't you learn how to appreciate real music?

@doloreg Yup, being absolutly serious!!! Tom does justice to those songs by covering them so well. I mean, he doesn't do as good of a job as the Rolling Stones, when they covered the Guns & Roses' song, Sympathy for the Devil. But all in all, Tom does allright!

@madmick17 Areyoufuckingkiddingme.jpg

I gotta say, Tom does a really good job covering this Scarlett Johansson song. Almost a good of a job, as when he covered Bruce Springsteen's, Jersey Girl!

horrible

God, i respect this guy <3

@1991stacy
She has no CLUE!! Tom Waits is GOD and to cover his music is blasphemy with in itself no matter how terrible and dull it sounds. And I'm talking Scarlett here. Her voice is...just...awful. And compared to Tom's, as a third party observer, that's saying something.

Say what you want about his voice (I love it's eccentric qualities) but his songs are amazing. His songs are like great short stories.

@1991stacy Yeah, the video description hasn't been changed. But that's ok, the thought of Scarlett Johansson herself learning the art of Tom Waits' sound via some obscure youtube video makes me laugh.

Indescribable masterpiece.

@partyjamj you are right, like hobo jesus or hobo buddha.......but they maybe never existed. ok than - hobbo bukowski, kerouac, orwell, london... and other less cool people comparing to scarlett johansson. also the song name is Falling Down. And believe me or not its not about the broken heel....

they're both great, but scarlett lacks charisma

@guavajuice I'm not sure if the video said "To show those looking for Scarlett how it's really done" before, but if so then I'm sorry, I misread your comment!

@peanutblitz I get what you're saying, but in the end we don't know Scarlett personally, so we can only make assumptions about her true intentions. I don't particularly like the cover, but at least it's introducing more people to his music, and at least Scarlett isn't doing some safe bubble gum pop. People get so heated up about these covers! Then again, if Miley Cyrus was doing Lenoard Cohen covers or something I'd probably be pretty annoyed, or at least think it's really (reaaaally) funny.

**sounds**

scarlett's version is way better he solunds like a drunk hobo

Uh, that’s the point

there is no wrong way to do a cover....thats the whole point..its an artists own interpretation of anothers song..its not suppost to sound identical. thats what makes it a cover.

@missopan aaahhh...yr probly right. at this moment : no i guess i dont take it back. sick of people whining but i dont like their voooooooiiiiiiice. fck, whats he doin here then man. i dont like his voooooooiiiiiiice. go listen to pretty scarlette. i 'm not gonna bother. i mean lettherightonein, not u miss.

There is no one, absolutely no one who sings like Tom. He is amazing.

i would like to PERSONALLY thank Scarlett for exposing me to this great song!

@1991stacy Not showing Scarlett how it's done, but those who were looking for the original on youtube after Scarlett's cover was released :)

@lettheonerightin Takje it back!! TAKE IT BACK RIGHT NOW!! hehehe... No seriously she dosent man..

@magdaszabo I like Bob Dylan!

@lettheonerightin he's so fabulous. u cant appreciate greatness i guess. u probly dont like neil young or bob dylan either...i love all the voices, those 3. maybe u prefer some lounge lizards to the real thing.

@Titiansurf I listened to the entire album of hers, and I can't stand one of the songs on it. I guess the fact that I disagree with your view must mean that I am jealous of her. Why is it so hard for you to understand that other people simply don't like what you like?

@fecalinferno agreed, I don't know why it was so trashed...and if it was made it was probably approved by Mr. Waits himself, he's so picky about selling out...rightfully so.

@1991stacy scarlett does it better... I don't like tom waits' rhythm... I don't like tom's voice...

It's got the same fucking rhythm as Tom's original. And Tom's has heart and a soul. He makes the song sound lived in, which is appropriate because it belongs to him. Scarlett's is just too deadpan and vacuous...sounds like she's just half-singing from very far away.

This mofo sounds like the cookie monster got some soul.

Thanks Tom, thanks.

cool photo!

while she NEVER stated that she was showing him up, after all, she PAID HIMMMMMM to touch that song, she DID imply in interviews that HER take was the best one. That negates HOMAGE. HOMAGE is VERY respectable. I do appreciate your looking for the best in someone, though. :)

we're not hateful of her as a person or as an actress... insulted as a fan of someone WRITES, and FEELS it. Performs in a manner that makes EVERY person in the crowd feel like HE is humbled by them- someone that alters your mood when his music is played. she's a lovely woman with a GOOD voice... but she's young and does NOT know the life time of "paying dues" in crappy clubs with missing piano keys that creates that soul. again, she's a great actress!

4 the LOVE of GOD and all things beautiful, THANK YOU for that tag. It's just... jaw dropping... like some brain synapse just... stopped... to recognize not only her AUDACITY but her nerve to ""improve?" a GENIUSE'S work? Oh, someone fell down all right. I'll be rewriting E=Mc2 later just because my ego is that huge coupled by the fact that i'm terrible with all things mathematical.

To everyone who keeps hating on Scarlett, why don't you stop and think to commend her for covering an artist you like so much instead of doing some dumb shit a lot of other actresses have done? She did a hell of a lot better than others would have. I like her version more actually. She took a love-him-or-hate-him artist and made his stuff more accessible I guess you could say. So frigg off with your negative commentary.

@1991stacy very well stated

@thekwaze ohhhh. haha i feel pretty stupid now--i wasn't saying tom waits' name in my head. i thought just "for no man" was some sort of reference only hardcore tom waits fans would get. oops.well thank you for clearing that up! it is funny now that i get it..haha.

@glortw
It's just a play on words, as in "Time waits for no man" - Tom Waits For No Man...Doh! I told it was puerile....

@thekwaze I confess, I am a bit of a Tom Waits newcomer, so will someone please tell me how "For No Man" would appeal to one's puerile sense of humour?

@SaveYoshi pretty sure her boobs are real.

@blackleatherrain you know that she covered "time", right?

@HeadlessPony Hell yeah man! Well, said.

Fantastic!!!*****

Scarlet has a great asss and tits.But when it comes to sing this kind of songs honey, go suck a lollipop.

She did a cover of the song because she obviously admires Tom Waits, not because she thought she could do it better, so you don't really have to "show her how it's done" - she knows.

@TheShakespeareBlues - I have to admit. I'd love to see Tori Amos cover some of Waits' pieces.

blackleatherrain
https://youtu.be/VVQrZEb0dhU

@TheShakespeareBlues Yeah, except that you shouldn't try to cover Tom Waits.

what album is this off?

It's not that she's a bad person, it's that she can't fucking sing.

@bacardi119

Amen to that! "I did my time in the jail of your arms". Goosebump stuff :D

"She loves you for all that you are not", Waits is a fucking genius.

It's Ok to Ramones cover I Don't Want To Grow Up adding electric guitars and fast drums, but Scarlett can't do a tribute because she's famous? Hipster fans are such hypocrites.

This version is better than Johansson anyway, but her version is pretty good IMO.

fuuuuuckk I love this song

Maybe Scarlett wasn't trying to improve the song, maybe she just likes it like the rest of us!

SCARLETT DISHONORED THIS SONG BY NOT STUDYING IT PRIOR TO COVERING IT.

Scarlett version is pretty solid, IMO

@SuperZombiechic You've obviously taken a knock to the head, don't worry, sanity will return. But it is amazing what you can do with a pretty face, autotune and a couple of million dollars.

I don't understand the hatred towards Scarlett. I think it's awesome someone famous in our generation did a Tom Waits cover album because it'll direct her younger fans to the genius that is Tom. Kudos to her. Obviously her version isn't as good. That's why it's a COVER. But kudos to her for not being another actress gone singer and putting out some shitty over produced pop album.

Come on kids, they're both beautiful. She's not gonna choose you for standin' so tall.

I like both versions of the song

@oisinallen

Thanks for that very entertaining link.
I'm glad the pun has already been used!

"And she wants you to steal and get caught
For she loves you for all that you are not"... - my world.
love it.

@thekwaze It's not exactly an album, but there's always this: /watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs