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Tom Waits

The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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
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 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’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible

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