What does Hell Broke Luce mean?

Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce Meaning

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Song Released: 2011


Hell Broke Luce Lyrics

I had a good home but I left
I had a good home but I left, right, left
That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf
A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong
I guarantee you'll meet up with a suicide bomb
Hell broke luce
Hell broke...

  1. anonymous
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    Apr 26th 2014 !⃝

    This goddamn made me listen, listen

  2. anonymous
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    Mar 31st 2013 !⃝

    Tom Waits himself says that "hell broke luce" was scratched into the wall at Alcatraz after a prison riot.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/25/tom_waits_discusses_his_new_album_bad_as_me.html

  3. tonytrouble
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    Mar 27th 2012 !⃝

    It's an anti-war song. The title refers to Jeffrey Lucey, a 23 year old U.S. soldier, who hung himself with a garden hose in his parents basement after returning home from the Iraq war.


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