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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

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
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
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.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
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
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
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
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing 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
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
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.
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People Scare Success Yourself
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
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.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself

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