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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.

Tom Waits

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
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
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
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
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
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
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
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood

And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.

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