Could the line in Tom Waits' "Shore Leave", about how "The same moon outside over this Chinatown fair could look down on Illinois, and find you there" is a reference to "I see the moon and the moon sees me / The moon sees the somebody I want to see"?

Aug 11, 2005

A bacon recipe a dayBacon of the month club.  The apostropher can thank me later.

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on 2005-08-12 6:36:17.0, apostropher commented:

Thanks, Ben.

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and, further, on 2005-08-13 7:47:18.0, Kriston commented:

Could the line in Tom Waits' "Shore Leave", about how "The same moon outside over this Chinatown fair could look down on Illinois, and find you there" is a reference to "I see the moon and the moon sees me / The moon sees the somebody I want to see"?

Is = be?

"Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight/ Someone's thinking of me, and loving me tonight"?

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and, further, on 2005-08-13 13:50:21.0, Stephen Philip Quincy Arthur commented:

Yes, "be".

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