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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Tom Waits

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
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust 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
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
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 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
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself

I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

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