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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.

Tom Waits

The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
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’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
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
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
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
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself

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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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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