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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

I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem

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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