The odd thing about this life is always that you spend half your time trying to get people to listen to you and the rest of the time trying to get them to leave you the fuck alone.
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

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Tom Waits - Tango Till They’re Sore

Tom Waits reads ‘The Laughing Heart’ by Charles Bukowski.

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Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker on the Vine [Instrumental]

I would like to propose a toast to watering holes in the Far East, to apocryphal tales of youthful intoxication, to long awaited reunions, and to fair winds and following seas be they literal or otherwise.

Adam Buxton - Tom Waits’ Rejected Iron Man 2 Theme

Speaking of note perfect parodies…

And I wondered how the same moon outside over this Chinatown fair could look down on Illinois, and find you there.

Tom Waits in Mystery Men (dir. Kinka Usher, 1999.)

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Tom Waits - Walk Away

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Tom Waits - Telephone Call from Istanbul

“Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.”