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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

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
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
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
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.
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Fight Justice Myself World
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing

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