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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

The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride

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.

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