A checklist of Tom Waits lines to work in to conversation

Use one of these a day:

• A rat always knows when he’s in with weasels
• They’re lining up to go insane.
• That deep blue sky is my home
• Independent as a hog on ice
• It was all ripe for dreaming
• All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
• Stayin’ out of circulation till the dogs get tired
• At night I pray and clean my gun
• Whittled from the bone of Cain
• I feel like a preacher waving a gun around
• God used me as a hammer boy to beat his weary drum today
• Damn good address for a rat
• I’d like to hammer this ring into a bullet
• I’m not Able, I’m just Cain
• They sharpen their knives on my mistakes
• There’s always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby
• Man’s a fiddle that life plays on
• They that dance must pay the fiddler
• Don’t go dreaming, don’t go scheming
• Well my friends think I’m ugly I got a masculine face
• Don’t trust a bull’s horn, a doberman’s tooth, a runaway horse or me
• Like a kid who captures a firefly, leaves it only to die in a jar
• Who ever thought hell’d be so cold?
• I wanna look in the mirror and see another face
• Yellow dog knows when he’s sinned
• The carpet needs a haircut
• He’s been seen at the table with kings
• He can turn himself into a stranger
• Everything this doughboy does is wrong
• Lie to me baby, I have no use for the truth

describe a girl as…

• a “tawny moor”
• a “sad luck dame”
• “Nothing wrong with her that $100 won’t fix”
• “all liquored up on that road house corn”
• Hair black as a bucket of tar, skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
• I was the jewel of her sin
• a “Salvation Army Band girl”

Advanced mode

• Your love is a faucet
• Got a wooden coat, this boy is never coming home
• The day when home early and the sun sank down into the muck of a deep dead sky
• The cracked bell rings as the ghost bird sings and the gods go begging here
• I feel like a slave ship upside down wrecked beneath the waves of a grain
• And by the time they finished “Moanin Low” I was soakin’ wet and wild eyed.
• There’s always some killin’ you got to do around the farm
• For want of a bird the sky was lost
• There are those who say beneath his coat there are wings
• He once killed a man with a guitar string

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