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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Tom Waits

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
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
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
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 don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

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