You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSThey 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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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 don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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