Rare and Sublime
The rain sounds like a round of applause

Tom Waits, “Time”

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I’m still on a Rain Dogs kick, having listened to the entire album again tonight. Thanks to a good friend, I now own the original vinyl and long for a record player. The meloncholy images in “Time” like “the band is going home” and “as the dish outside the window fills with rain” softly end a chaotic album side. The alliteration and internal rhyme of this simple line always slays me.

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