Martha Lyrics

von Tom Waits

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Der Songtext 'Martha' von Tom Waits handelt von der nostalgischen Erinnerung an eine vergangene Liebe. Der Protagonist, ...

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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 'bout 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.
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 feel so much older now
And you're much older too
How's your husband?
And how's the 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.
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 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 being together
Was never meant to be.
And Martha, Martha
I love you can't you see?
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...