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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.

Tom Waits

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

Angel Devil Myself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITS

Beginning End Start
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.
TOM WAITS

Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
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.
TOM WAITS

Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
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
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe

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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.

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