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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.

Tom Waits

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.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way 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
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain

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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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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