Bastards is concerned with Waits' more experimental musical styles, opening with an adaptation of 's poem 'What Keeps Mankind Alive?' ![]() Waits claims to have originally intended to call this part of the compilation Shut Up and Eat Your Ballads. The track 'Down There by the Train' was written by Waits for, and was first released on Cash's first album. Bawlers is composed of mostly downbeat numbers, replacing the hope of ballads on previous albums with resignation (notably 'Bend Down the Branches', 'Little Drop of Poison', 'Fannin Street', 'Little Man', and 'Widow's Grove'). ![]() ” Brawlers, the most and -oriented of the three collections, contains songs covering themes ranging from failed relationships ('Lie to Me', 'Walk Away'), floods and subsequent havoc ('2:19'), and a song about the ('Road to Peace') and incorporates musical styles such as bluesy ('Ain't Goin' Down to the Well', 'Lord I've Been Changed'), sentimental tunes ('), and grim story-songs ('Lucinda'). There are different sources to all these songs and they were written at different times.
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