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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.

Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITS

Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal

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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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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