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

Tom Waits

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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
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
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
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
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality

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

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