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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

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.
BEN HARPER

Home Pain Running
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
BEN HARPER

Loathing Self Steps Suppose
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.
BEN HARPER

Battle Eye Relationship
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
BEN HARPER

Bring Down Good Men Pebble
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPER

Ethics Long Moral
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
BEN HARPER

Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
BEN HARPER

Mind Time Want
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.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
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.
BEN HARPER

Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
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.
BEN HARPER

Funny Heaven Life
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Stardust Stars
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
BEN HARPER

Doing Feels Want
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
BEN HARPER

Interview Lifetime Men
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Feel Heal Much Touch
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
BEN HARPER

Grace Room Singing
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks
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
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
BEN HARPER

Different Moving Moving Forward
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed
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
BEN HARPER

Darkness Dawn Friends Old
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
BEN HARPER

Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
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.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running Sweet
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.
BEN HARPER

Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
BEN HARPER

Country Fall Rain
People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
BEN HARPER

People Spiritual Trying
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
BEN HARPER

Color Heart Music
The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing

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