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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] MummifiedClient5000 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tom Waits wrote the lyrics in reference to a night out in Copenhagen with Danish musician Mathilde Bondo of the couple Lasse og Mathilde. He supposedly asked her to travel with him, but she rejected, which makes the song all the more bitter-sweet.