Reply #3: He has a new album coming out in October, he is my favorite musical

[Melodybe]

person ever.

here is a link to an interview where he talks about his new album and the song, "Day After Tomorrow."

http://ubb.mojo4music.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=235810&page=&view=&sb=5&o=

An excerpt:

The song that might get the most attention, though, is "The Day After Tomorrow," the album's closer and a rare foray for Waits into topical subject matter. The song is essentially a letter from a soldier just trying to make it another day before he is scheduled to return home. Aside from a reference to a plane touching down, it could as easily be from the Civil War as from Iraq. But Waits says it was very much formed from current events.

"You have to be able to write about what goes on around you," he says. "Pick up a newspaper, write a tune. That's all I was trying to do. Not like I'm making speeches at the U.N. But there's nothing but war in the papers now. The whole world's at war."
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