Martha - Tom Waits: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Martha

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Martha was released on March 6, 1973 by Anti/Epitaph as a part of the album Closing Time (Remastered)

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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Tom Waits

Vocals

Jesse Ehrlich

Cello

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Tom Waits

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jerry Yester

Producer

Richie Moore

Engineer

Lyrics

Operator, number please

It's been so many years

Will she remember my old voice

While I fight the tears?

Hello, hello there, is this Martha?

This is old Tom Frost

And I am calling long distance

Don't worry about the cost

'Cause it's been forty years or more

Now Martha, please recall

Meet me out for coffee

Where we'll talk about it all

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Those were the days of roses

Poetry, and prose, and Martha

All I had was you and all you had was me

There was no tomorrows

We'd packed away our sorrows

And we saved 'em for a rainy day

And I feel so much older now

And you're much older too

How's the husband? And how's your kids?

You know that I got married too?

Lucky that you found someone

To make you feel secure

'Cause we were all so young and foolish

Now we are mature

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Those were the days of roses

Poetry, and prose, and Martha

All I had was you and all you had was me

There was no tomorrow

We'd packed away our sorrows

And we saved 'em for a rainy day

And I was always so impulsive

I guess that I still am

And all that really mattered then

Was that I was a man

I guess that our bein' together

Was never meant to be

And Martha, Martha

I love you, can't you see?

And those were the days of roses

And those were the days of roses

Poetry, and prose, and Martha

All I had was you and all you had was me

There was no tomorrows

We'd packed away our sorrows

And we saved them for a rainy day

And I remember quiet evenings

Trembling close to you

Written by: Tom Waits

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