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, 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...
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This goddamn made me listen, listen
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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 -
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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