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Tom Waits
Heartattack And Vine
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“Heartattack and Vine” is a song from the Tom Waits album by the same name. The song takes its name from Hollywood and Vine, the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It describes the difficulties of life in the crime-ridden parts of Los Angeles, California (Cahuenga is a street in Los Angeles and the local bus system was formerly known as the RTD).
The song makes use of many double meanings and local references (street names, bus system, and colloquial drug slang), often alluding to the fact that nothing is sacred in that part of the city (“there ain’t no devil, there’s just God when he’s drunk”) and how people who moved there from other places looking for a better life end up prostitutes (“Well I bet she’s still a...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ What you say you meet me down on Heartattack and Vine ... Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's just God when he's drunk ... Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line ♫
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