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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Tom Waits

For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain

She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

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