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Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
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’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
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
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 don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITS

Fight Justice Myself World
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible

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