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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

Tom Waits

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
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
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live 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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