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Bad As Me, 2011
Written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
A New Year's Eve party filled with hooligans and hard-scrabble ne'er-do-wells as only Waits can paint it. There's fireworks and sirens and noise and fighting and curses. "All the noise was disturbing and I couldn't find Irving / It was like two stations on at the same time / And then I hid your car keys, and I made black coffee." And someone has drugs and might get arrested, and someone's planning to leave with just the clothes on his back and a bunch of records in a brown paper sack. There's a confusion of proper names and it's all pretty vague and chaotic. That's where Waits is at home.
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