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

Tom Waits

Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
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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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
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 was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
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

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

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