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TOM WAITS
TOM WAITS
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
Tom WaitsTom Waits Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
Tom WaitsTom Waits All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
Tom WaitsTom Waits Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
Tom WaitsTom Waits You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
Tom WaitsTom Waits But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
Tom WaitsTom Waits It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
Tom WaitsTom Waits You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Tom WaitsTom Waits
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