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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood

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