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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Ben Harper

The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
BEN HARPER

God Knees Thanks
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
BEN HARPER

Blessing Comeback People
Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
BEN HARPER

Believe Fall Morning
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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Morning Running World
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Blind Listening Spiritual
I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Dying Fall Flying High
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
BEN HARPER

Myself Pass Persons Shoes
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPER

Adages Everything Loses
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
BEN HARPER

Song Strong Thinking
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
BEN HARPER

God Rooms Separation
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
BEN HARPER

Doing Feels Want
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Battle Moral Stories
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
BEN HARPER

Anything Believe Hope
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
BEN HARPER

Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
BEN HARPER

Bass House Records
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
BEN HARPER

Changed Children Reflection
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
BEN HARPER

Country Fall Rain
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
BEN HARPER

Color Heart Music
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Humanity Needs
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
BEN HARPER

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
BEN HARPER

Hands Mean Reality
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Lightning Sunset

I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

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