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Tom Waits

I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
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
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
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself

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