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The "bottle in front of me" line is a classic example of chiasmus.
Dorothy Parker, I believe.
Hey, my dad's older than Tom Waits! And he's pithy, too!
No, this song/saying is WAY older than Tom Waits. Although he did say it most pithily.
What? Tom Waits?? All this time I thought it was my dad. ;-)
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
--attributed to Tom Waits, I believe