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I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Ben Folds

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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Confession Fantasy Song
Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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Cheating Lying Mean
Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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Couple Sleep Sorry
I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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Song Writing Years
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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Proud Simplicity Writing
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Failure Married Parent
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Church Musician Writing
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Heard Lying Often Spoke
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way

I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

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