It's Over

(Liberty Heights studio version, 1999)

You must have brought the bad weather with you
The sky's the colour of lead
All you've left me is a feather
on an unmade bed

It's always me whenever there's trouble
The world does nothing but turn
And the ring it fell off my finger
I guess I'll never learn

But it's over, it's over, it's over
I'm getting dressed in the dark
Our story ends before it begins
I always confess to everyone's sins
The nail gets hammered down
And it's over, let it go

So don't go and make a big deal out of nothing
Well it's just a storm on a dime
And I've always found there's nothing
that money can't buy
I've already gone to the place I'm going
There's no place left to fall
And there's something to be said
for saying nothing at all

And it's over, it's over, it's over
It's done forgotten and through
No one cares what it's all for
You'll be buried in the clothes
that you've never wore
So keep your suitcase by the door
It's over, let it go

No one cares what it's all for
You'll be buried in the clothes
that you never wore
So keep your suitcase by the door
It's over, let it go
You gotta let it go
Let it go, let it go

Written by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Waits-Brennan(1)
Published by: Jalma Music (ASCAP), © 1999
Recorded at Prairie Sun Recording studios. Cotati, CA/ USA, 1998
Official release: Liberty Heights soundtrack album, 1999



It's Over

(Orphans studio version, 2006)

I must have brought the bad weather with me
The sky's the colour of lead
All you've left me was a feather
on an unmade bed

It's always me whenever there's trouble
The world does nothing but turn
And the ring it fell off my finger
I guess I'll never learn

And it's over, it's over, it's over
I'm getting dressed in the dark
Our story ends before it begins
I always confess to everyone's sins
The nail gets hammered down
And it's over, let it go

So don't go and make a big deal out of nothing
It's just a storm on a dime
And I've always found there's nothing
that money can not buy
I've already gone to the place that I'm going
There's no place left to fall
And there's something to be said
about saying nothing at all(2)

Cause baby then it's over, and it's over
It's done forgotten and through
Story ends before it begins
I always confess to everyone's sins
The nail gets hammered down
And it's over, let it go

You got to let me go
I wanna let it go
I wanna let it go
I wanna let you go
I want to let you go

Written by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Waits-Brennan(1)
Published by: Jalma Music (ASCAP), © 1999/ 2006
Official release: Orphans (Bawlers), (P) & © 2006 Anti Inc.

Known covers:
None


Listen to audio excerpt of It's Over as performed in the theatre play Woyzeck.
Sung by Ulla Henningsen (as Margret).
Betty Nansen theatre. Copenhagen/ Denmark. November 20, 2000.

Notes:

(1) It's Over: Also included in the play Woyzeck (sung by Margret in act 2, scene 5). Further reading: Woyzeck Full Story

(2) Extra verse as transcribed in Orphans booklet (from original Woyzeck version, 2000): "And it's over, it's over, it's over. It's done forgotten and through. No one cares what it's all for. You'll be buried in the clothes that you never wore. So keep your suitcase by the door. It's over, let it go."