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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.

Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar 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
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.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
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
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
TOM WAITS

Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
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
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live

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