As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPERThe lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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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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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
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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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The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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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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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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