I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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?
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I was always laughing in church.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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