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 day. Bacon of the month club. The apostropher can thank me later.
Comments
on 2005-08-12 6:36:17.0, apostropher commented:
Thanks, Ben.
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"?
and, further, on 2005-08-13 13:50:21.0, Stephen Philip Quincy Arthur commented:
Yes, "be".