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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.

Tom Waits

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
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
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 like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong

The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.

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