I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You (track)
by Tom Waits
Year: 1973
From the album Closing Time (track #2)
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I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- Closing Time (track #2) (this album) (1973)
- Anthology Of Tom Waits (track #4) (compilation) (1985)
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| ! | 04/18/2026 18:07 | bonnequestion | 17,407 | 74/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2026 15:51 |  HoldenM | 10,332 | 90/100 |
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/25/2016 15:44 | #173477
My goodness, what a heartbreaking song. Told from the perspective of a lonely patron at a late-night bar, this is the story of "these old tom-cat feelings" that the narrator feels watching a woman from across the room, imagining the loneliness she might be thinking. Before he musters the nerve to walk over and talk with her, though, she leaves. The song ends, "...And I think that I just fell in love with you." Gorgeous, sad, and lonely. That's the general feeling on Closing Time.
