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It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.

Ben Harper

Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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Funny Heaven Life
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
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Blessed Want Worst
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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People Spiritual Trying
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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Life Live Mistake Real
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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Anything Duets Mother Son
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.
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Blessing Comeback People
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
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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Hands Home Worried
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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Existence Song Writing
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Jesus Name Number
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
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.
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Dying Fall Flying High
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble
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
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
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 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
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
BEN HARPER

Believe Distance Relationship

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