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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.

Billy Joel

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Doors Opening People
In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Comes Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Heart Love Lying
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Human Music Need Same Things
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Insanity Talking Winos
It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Arabia Country Lawrence Place
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
We’re on the verge of all things new.
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All Cerge Country New Things
If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Causes Past Way
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Dirty Found Quality You
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Blood Hot Writing
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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May Philosophy Right
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Knows Right Wrong
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Mind Song Speak Time
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Conversation Paranoia Someone Talk Way
In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Evil Home Open Phones Window

You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.

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