Way Down in the Hole

I know I blogged about this song before, but that was almost three years ago. And I know I often blog about The Wire (last time I mentioned was not even a week ago), but it is such a great show and its music is haunting me. So I have decided to upload on Vraie Fiction Way Down in the Hole by Tom Waits, because I keep listening to it. And well, Lent is nearly over, soon it will be Good Friday and Easter and this song mentions Jesus plenty and Satan, although in a sarcastic, even cynical tone. I am wondering a lot about the meaning of the song. I don't know much about Tom Waits as an artist, know zilch about his beliefs or disbeliefs, but I think Way Down in the Hole is about the human condition, about the threats we face and the precarious nature of our situation. Life is a constant struggle against unknown, terrible menaces, often against our own demons.

Way Down In The Hole

I am discovering with pleasure The Wire these days. Great crime show, great characters, great story, great atmosphere, I will, I promise, blog about it one day. It made me discover a song by Tom Waits, Way Down In The Hole, which is used in the opening credits. I don't know much about Tom Waits, if anything at all, but I really love the tone of this song. I don't want this blog to be all happy and cheerful all the time, blogging about blossoming trees and summertime and so on. Sometimes, I need a healthy dose of profanity, of bitter beer, gloomy fiction and overall cynicism. I might not walk the streets of Baltimore, I still come from a city even Raymond Chandler deemed as highly corrupted. But in the end, I put the song here because I love it.