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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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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Myself Prayer Religious
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

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