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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Tom Waits

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth 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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound

I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

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