I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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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.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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