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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

Tom Waits

Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITS

Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
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
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
TOM WAITS

Career Family Night Trick Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
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
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

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