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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.

Tom Waits

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.

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