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Tom Waits Celebrates Flies with New Track | Music News
Tom Waits just dropped a wild new spoken word track called “The Fly” — the B-side to his recent collab with Massive Attack — and it’s equal parts poetic, absurd, and oddly profound. With his gravelly voice and signature storytelling flair, Waits turns the humble fly into a philosophical muse, riffing on human error, mortality, and even threatening to swat it for landing on food. Co-written with wife Kathleen Brennan and animated by his son Casey, the track features buzzing soundscapes and cheeky musings on whether flies are nature’s ultimate survivors. It’s Waits’ second original since 2011’s…
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