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Tom Waits – Everything Goes to Hell (2002) | Track profile | Dork

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Tom Waits
Blood Money
Everything Goes to Hell

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Everything Goes to Hell

Release date: 7th May 2002

From Blood Money

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About This Track

"Everything Goes to Hell" 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

Everything Goes to Hell

Why be sweet? Why be careful? Why be kind?

A man has only one thing on his mind

Why ask politely? Why go lightly? Why say please?

They only want to get you on your knees

There's a few things I never could believe

A woman when she weeps

A merchant when he swears

A thief who says he'll pay

A lawyer when he cares

A snake when he is sleeping

A drunkard when he prays

I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good

And everything goes to hell anyway

Laissez-faire, mi amour, c'est la vie

Shall I return to shore or swim back out to sea?

The world don't care what a sailor does in the town

It's hanging in the windows by the pound

I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good

And everything goes to hell anyway

I only want to hear your purr and to hear you moan

You have another man who brings the money home

I don't want dishes in the sink

Don't ask me what I feel or what I think

There's a few things I never could believe

A woman when she weeps

A merchant when he swears

A thief who says he'll pay

A lawyer when he cares

A snake when he is sleeping

A drunkard when he prays

I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good

Everything goes to hell anyway

Everything goes to hell anyway

Everything goes to hell anyway

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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: Matthew Sperry
Vocals: Tom Waits
Accordion: Bebe Risenfors
Acoustic Guitar: Tom Waits
Baritone Saxophone: Colin Stetson
Bongos: Gino Robair
Chamberlin: Tom Waits
Clarinet: Dan Plonsey
Credited: ANTI- Records, Bebe Risenfors, Colin Stetson, Dan Plonsey, Gavin Lurssen, Gino Robair, Kathleen Brennan, Matthew Sperry, Oz Fritz, S. Husky Höskulds, The Mastering Lab
Label: ANTI- Records
Mastered At: The Mastering Lab
Mastering Engineer: Gavin Lurssen
Mixing Engineer: S. Husky Höskulds
Recording Engineer: Oz Fritz
Timpani: Gino Robair