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

Tom Waits

The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
TOM WAITS

Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
TOM WAITS

Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS

Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS

Capture End Feature Song Writing
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS

Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITS

Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITS

Gentle Man Play
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITS

Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
TOM WAITS

Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself

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

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

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