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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.

Tom Waits

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

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
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.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
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.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
TOM WAITS

Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Innocence Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire Memories Time
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch

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