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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.

Tom Waits

I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
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.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental

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