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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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician 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
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood

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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