Tom Waits / Closing Time (US, Asylum Records, SD5061) <March 6, 1973> その②

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Tom Waits / Closing Time (US, Asylum Records, SD5061) <March 6, 1973>
(SIDE ONE) ST-AS-732731B PR
(SIDE TWO) ST-AS-732732A PR

本作品のレコは日本盤以外で白ラベルのプロモ盤が存在しません。本作品でのオリジナル盤のラベルは「ホワイト・アサイラム」です。
なお、このTom Waits / Closing Time (SD5061)のプロモ盤のマトリクスは、僕が知る限り「732731A / 732732A」と「732731B / 732732A」の2種類があるようです(本盤は後者)。

1曲目の人気が圧倒的でしょうが、でも1番好きなのは"Grapefruit Moon"
恥ずかしくなるほど青臭く感傷的な歌詞が、また可愛いです。

Grapefruit moon, one star shining
Shining down on me
Heard that tune, and now I'm pining
Honey, can't you see?
Cause every time I hear that melody
Something breaks inside
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining
Can't turn back the tide

Never had no destinations
Could not get across
You became my inspiration
Oh, but what a cost
And every time I hear that melody
Something breaks inside
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining
Is more than I can hide

Now I'm smoking cigarettes
And I strive for purity
And I slip just like the stars
Into obscurity
And every time I hear that melody
Puts me up a tree
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining
Is all that I can see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0uBPt0UOA

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