Lyrics to
A Sight For Sore Eyes

This version of A Sight For Sore Eyes was released by Tom Waits in 1977.

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hey sight for sore eyes it’s a long time no see
workin hard hardly workin hey man you know me
water under the bridge didya see my new car
well it’s bought and it’s payed for parked outside of the bar

and hey barkeeper what’s keepin you keep pourin drinks
for all these palookas hey you know what i thinks
that we toast to the old days and dimagio too
and old drysdale and mantle whitey ford and to you

no the old gang ain’t around everyone has left town
‘cept for thumm and giardina said they just might be down
oh half drunk all the time and i’m all drunk the rest
yea monk’s till the champion but i’m the best

i guess you heard about nash he was killed in a crash
hell that must of been two or three years ago now
yea he spun out and he rolled he hit a telephone pole
and he died with the radio on
no she’s married and with a kid finally split up with sid
he’s up north for a nickle’s worth for armed robbery

hey i’ll play you some pin ball hell you ain’t got a chance
well then go on over and ask her to dance

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Tom Waits has released many songs over the years besides A Sight For Sore Eyes. Tom Waits released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Closing Time, The Heart Of Saturday Night, Nighthawks At The Diner, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack And Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years, The Early Years Vol. 1, Bone Machine, The Black Rider, The Early Years Vol. 2, Mule Variations, Blood Money, Alice, and Real Gone. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Tom Waits.

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About Lyrics and A Sight For Sore Eyes by Tom Waits

The lyrics for A Sight For Sore Eyes are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Tom Waits. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to A Sight For Sore Eyes have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for A Sight For Sore Eyes - Tom Waits and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to A Sight For Sore Eyes by Tom Waits in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to A Sight For Sore Eyes" means the words set to the music of A Sight For Sore Eyes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Tom Waits. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to A Sight For Sore Eyes and the lyrics to A Sight For Sore Eyes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Tom Waits who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Sight For Sore Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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