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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.

Tom Waits

I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITS

Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
TOM WAITS

Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

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

Guy Ring Sell Type
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself

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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