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Tom Waits

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
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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Fight Justice Myself World
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
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
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
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
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces

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