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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

All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
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.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
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’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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