You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSTime is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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