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Tom Waits

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
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
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
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
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
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
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
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITS

Down Dreams Luck Yourself
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
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room 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
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
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
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITS

Guy Ring Sell Type

There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

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