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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.

Tom Waits

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
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
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
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
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood 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
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself

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