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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

Tom Waits

I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal 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 did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time 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
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
TOM WAITS

Floor Machine Myself Pieces
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick

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