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

Tom Waits

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
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
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
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
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.
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Admire Death Feeling People
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary

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

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