What's He Building?

Album: Mule Variations (1999)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: THOMAS ALAN WAITS

Comments: 3

  • Bob Sacamano from New York CityVery peculiar. I think it's about a guy I know named Grin. Nefarious Grin.
  • Daniel from Seattle, WaA perfect video version of this would be various scenes from Universal Films of their old 1930s-1940s horror movies. You could run these scenes at half speed showing stuff from Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory with the sparking jacob's ladders, the dry ice fog, etc.

    At the end, the angry villiagers with their torches and bloodhounds are shown coming up the hill and Waits says the line, "We have a right to know."
  • Gary from Wilkesboro, NcThis song and the movie "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks have a lot of parallels.
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