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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

Tom Waits

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start

There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

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