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Talk about celestial bodies.
I never was a very good singer.
Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.
Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.
I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.
Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.
Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?
Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.
When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?
Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.
Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.