The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOELYou’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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