The Early Years Quotes

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
― Tom Waits, The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983

“Let me fall out of the window/
With confetti in my hair”
― Tom Waits, Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years, 1971-1983

“I danced along a colored wind/
Dangled from a rope of sand”
― Tom Waits, Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years, 1971-1983

“using parking meters as walking sticks.”
― Tom Waits, The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983

“... there ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits, The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1982: The Early Years

“There ain't no such thing as the devil that's just god when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits, The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983

“a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside
and domestically approved romantic fancy
is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing
it will only be parlayed into a memory”
― Tom Waits, The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983