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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

Tom Waits

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
TOM WAITS

Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
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

I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

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