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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.

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
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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Morning Running Sweet
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
I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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Empowering Feelings Song
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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Hands Mean Reality
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
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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God Knees Thanks
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble
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
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks

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