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I did my time in the jail of your arms.

Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
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
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITS

Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
TOM WAITS

Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself

I did my time in the jail of your arms.

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