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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

Tom Waits

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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound

I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

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