When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
TOM PETTYSomewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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A rebel without a clue.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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