The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSI’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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