""I am an individual who is deeply concerned with the inequities as we all are, but ill equipped to solve any of them," Waits previously said in a press statement. "I tell the world in the only way I know how: through my music. I don't deal with politics or laws, and I don't have answers to the big questions that concern us all. All I can do is try - through songs and poems - t"
"He also reveals the track was inspired by the Australian slang "waltzing matilda," which he describes as "moving with all your belongings on your back." "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) is one of Waits' signature songs, appearing on his fourth studio album, Small Change. In addition to borrowing the chorus from the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda," the lyrics were inspired by his experiences in Los Angeles and Copenhagen."
Tom Waits appears in the final episode of The Human Factor, titled "The Last Ride," produced by Italian public TV channel RAI3. He reads the poem Seeds on Hard Ground and performs music, including a rare live rendition of his 1976 song "Tom Traubert's Blues." The 75-year-old frames homelessness by asking those in abundance to imagine being down to a last dollar, cup of coffee, or dry pair of socks. He contrasts statistics with poetry as a way to capture displaced people and explains the song's link to the Australian slang "waltzing matilda" and his travels.
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