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Tom Waits

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
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
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing

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