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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Tom Waits

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

Music Myself Song Wind
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 like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star 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
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself

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