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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

Tom Waits

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start

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