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Tom Waits

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
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 like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
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
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
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
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
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 did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
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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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman

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