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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.

Billy Idol

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down – I’m out on a limb here, so watch my back.
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Dark Demagogue Heart Sex
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Blue Expression Walks
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Care Idols Long
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
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Dog Men Past
The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
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Fans Goes On World
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
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Believe Earlier Music Quite Really
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
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Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Body Personality
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
I’m rolling in the feces of my greatest hits – that’s a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
BILLY IDOL

Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Art People Rocks
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn’t help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don’t.
BILLY IDOL

Day One People Thinking
If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Asks Chance Dancing
I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOL

Believe People Want

When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.

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