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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Tom Waits

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start

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