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You’re innocent when you dream.

Tom Waits

Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITS

Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS

End Force Surreal Yourself
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITS

Food High Myself Table Trade
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way
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.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking

You’re innocent when you dream.

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