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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.

Tom Waits

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
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 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
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
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality

I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.

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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.

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