The second half of Tom Waits' 2002
simultaneous release with Alice, his fifteenth album, and it's even got magical abilities. Kind of. This album is a studio version of music from Waits' version of the play Woyzcec. It is a chilling set of songs, but it is an amazing
peek into Waits' mind. Track five, God's Away On Business, is a happy seeming tune, disguising a horrific tale of the
sinking ship we are all on.
Example:
An excerpt from Blood Money's-
Misery Is the River of the World
God builds a church
The devil builds a chapel
Like the thistles that are growing
'Round the trunk of a tree
All the good in the world
You can
put inside a
thimble
And still have room for you and me
If there's one thing you can say about Mankind
There's nothing kind about man
You can
drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back again