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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.

Ben Harper

You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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Home Pain Running
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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Battle Lost Waste
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
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
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
You have to do what you believe in.
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Believe Self Love Trust
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Humanity Needs

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