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Tom Waits

It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness 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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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
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.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
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.
TOM WAITS

Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
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
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime

You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.

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