Attempting to play Tom Waits' "Time"

So that Scarlett Johansson Tom Waits cover album is nearly here. Having heard two songs off the album I can say that I'm not too impressed. [Listen to one of them here] It sounds semi-amateurish, and the vocal is sort of mixed too low, probably in an attempt to ... ahem... hide something.

So I decided to attempt to record a Tom Waits song myself. You can listen to the results below. And no, it's not better than Scarlett's attempts, but then I'm not planning to record an actual album. This is just done for fun.

TIME

Well the smart moneys on Harlow and the moon is in the street

And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And youre east of east Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancees in the mirror
And the band is going home, its raining hammers, its raining nails
And its true theres nothing left for him down here

CHORUS: And its time time time, and its time time time
And its time time time that you love
And its time time time

And they all pretend theyre orphans and their memorys like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you cant remember tell the things you cant forget
That history puts a saint in every dream
Well she said shed stick around until the bandages came off
But these mamas boys just dont know when to quit
And Mathilda asks the sailors are those dreams or are those prayers?
So close your eyes, son, and this wont hurt a bit

CHORUS

Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off til I come back again