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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself

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