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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

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
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
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
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITS

Devil Drink God Himself Known

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

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