Blind Love


Now you’re gone
It’s hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames
And I don’t care if they miss me
I never remember their names
They say if you get far enough away
You’ll be on your way back home
Well, I’m at the station
And I can’t get on the train

Must be blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
Blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
Oh, it’s blind love
Stone blind love
It’s your stone blind love

Now the street’s turning blue
The dogs are barking and the night has come
And there’s tears that are falling
From your blue eyes now
I wonder where you are
And I whisper your name
The only way to find you
Is if I close my eyes

Find you with my blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
Oh, your blind love
Your stone blind love

It’s your blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
Stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
Stone blind love
Stone blind love


Words and music by Tom Waits
©1985 Jalma Music (ASCAP)



Produced by Tom Waits
Engineered and mixed by Robert Musso
Recorded at RCA studios
Mixed at Quadrasonic Studio and RPM Studio

Tom Waits: Vocals and guitar
Robert Quine: Guitar
Larry Taylor: Double bass
Stephen Arvizu Taylor Hodges: Drums
Ross Levinson: Violins
Keith Richards: Guitar and backing vocals

Track 13 on the album ‘Rain Dogs’ 1985
Time: 4.18


Live versions available on these bootlegs:


A Swedish version (‘Blind Kärlek’) was released by Bad Liver och Hans Brustna Hjärtan, on their album ‘14 Sånger’ in 1989

And Bob Seger covered it in 1991 on his album ‘The Fire Inside’