Tom Waits Releases Timeless New Single 'The Fly'

Tom Waits Shares New Spoken Word Piece ‘The Fly’: ‘My Appreciation for the Winged Nuisance’

The track features as B-side for Waits' "Boots on the Ground" collaboration with Massive Attack, his first new music since 2011

Tom Waits Releases New Spoken Word Track "The Fly"

Tom Waits has released a new spoken word track called "The Fly," the B-side to his Massive Attack collaboration "Boots on the Ground."

Tom Waits releases timeless new single 'The Fly'

Tom Waits has surprise-released a new spoken word song, titled ‘The Fly’. The four-minute track finds Waits delivering a humorous ode to the common house fly, with Waits stating on ‘The Fly’, “You have no house, well you have mine, You have no real friends, stay away from the wine, House fly go to sleep say goodbye, no one will weep when you die.” Later on, he satirically adds, “You’re handsome and thin, you try to blend in, You bastard, sitting…

Tom Waits Shares Spoken Word "The Fly"

“The Fly”, a new spoken-word track by Tom Waits, is out today on all streaming platforms. Waits wields his whipsaw humor in this satirical ode to the common housefly. The track expresses a begrudging admiration for the brief unsung life of the insect: “You have no house, well you have mine / You have no real friends, stay away from the wine / House fly go to sleep say goodbye, no one will weep when you die.” “The Fly” is the B-side to “Boots On …

Tom Waits Shares New Spoken Word Track 'The Fly'

Tom Waits has released a new spoken word recording, ‘The Fly’, a darkly comic meditation on the common housefly that will also feature as the B-side to his recent collaboration with Massive Attack on a forthcoming charity vinyl release. by Paul Cashmere Tom Waits has released ‘The Fly’, his second piece of new original work this year, issuing the spoken word recording to streaming platforms ahead of a limited edition 12-inch vinyl with Massive A…

New spoken word track by Tom Waits

Here it is.