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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

Tom Waits

I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
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
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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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Admire Death Feeling People
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
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
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself

The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

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