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Tom Waits

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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth 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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
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
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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
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.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time

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