I googled this and can't believe that it doesn't appear to have ever been discussed online, but it will be now. And, I know Tom Waits fans are rabidly loyal and I'm not trying to stir anything up, he's had a very successful career and inspired a lot of people.

But, occasionally I get asked to play something and it goes something like "It starts out in 4/4, but then there's a bar of 2/4, go to back to 4/4 for x measures and then there's a 9/8 measure followed by a ...

Do you think he really...

A question for Tom Waits fans