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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
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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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
Their 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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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself

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