It's still lyrics-first, sound-second, with Miss Yankey sharing her approach to music analysis with Sam & Martin. Waits gets straight back into the religious material with this 'masterpiece of bitterness', bridging spiritual, earthly, and cookie concerns.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
God's Away on Business, Blood Money, Tom Waits (2002)
God Bless The Child, single, Billie Holiday (1941)
Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business, cookiewaits, via YouTube (2011)
Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen (1988)
No Children, Tallahassee, The Mountain Goats (2003)
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