Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSTheir memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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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.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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