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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.

Ben Folds

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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Gigs Pain White
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
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
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
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Records Sound Want
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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People Thinking Writing
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
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
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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Animal Class Piano
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want

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