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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

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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
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
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
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
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar 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.

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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.

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