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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Tom Waits

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITS

Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
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
TOM WAITS

Myself Prayer Religious
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire Memories Time
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
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.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITS

Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITS

Alcohol Blood Myself
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITS

Down Dreams Luck Yourself

The piano has been drinking, not me.

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