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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

Tom Waits

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
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
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
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
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself

I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

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