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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

Tom Waits

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITS

People Scare Success Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS

Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITS

Beginning End Start

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

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