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Tom Waits

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
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
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
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Myself Prayer Religious
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself

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