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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS

Money Myself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
TOM WAITS

Commercial Oneself Song
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
TOM WAITS

Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

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