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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Tom Waits

I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music 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
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
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
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
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.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time

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