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Tom Waits
Blood Money
All the World is Green

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All the World is Green

Release date: 7th May 2002

From Blood Money

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About This Track

"All the World is Green" is a track by Tom Waits, from the album Blood Money, released 7th May 2002. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Tom Waits.

Lyrics

All the World is Green

I fell into the ocean when you became my wife

I risked it all against the sea to have a better life

Marie, you are the wild blue sky, men do foolish things

You turn kings into beggars and beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothing

And all the world is green

We can bring back the old days again

When all the world is green

The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plow

The questions begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?

Maybe when our story's over, we'll go where it's always spring

The band is playing our song again, all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing

And all the world is green

Can we bring back the old days again

When all the world is green?

The moon is yellow silver, oh the things that summer brings

It's a love you'd kill for and all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond on a blade of grass

The dew will settle on our graves when all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing

And all the world is green

We can bring back the old days again

When all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond on a blade of grass

The dew will settle on our graves when all the world is green

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Track details

From Blood Money

2002

Album

Release year

2002

—Starving in the Belly of a Whale
—Coney Island Baby
—The Part You Throw Away
—Another Man's Vine
—All the World is Green
—Everything Goes to Hell
—Knife Chase
—God’s Away on Business

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Credits

Writer: Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits
Producer: Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits
Bass: Larry Taylor
Vocals: Tom Waits
Acoustic Guitar: Tom Waits
Cello: Matthew Brubeck
Clarinet: Colin Stetson
Credited: ANTI- Records, Bent Clausen, Birds on a Wire, Colin Stetson, Gavin Lurssen, Kathleen Brennan, Köster & Hocker, Larry Taylor, Matthew Brubeck, Mente Sabia Crú, Oz Fritz, SLIMUS, The Mastering Lab, Various Artists, Гуф (Guf)
Label: ANTI- Records
Marimba: Bent Clausen
Mastered At: The Mastering Lab
Mastering Engineer: Gavin Lurssen
Mixing Engineer: Oz Fritz
Recording Engineer: Oz Fritz