Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITSArithmetic 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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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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