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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

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
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
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
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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing 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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