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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

Dar Williams

It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
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Child Children Labor Slavery
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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Light Night Revenge
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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Empires Foundation Looks
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Bout Evolve Ourselves
The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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Goodbye Passed School Summer
Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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Choice Make Political Time
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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Leader Parent Religious
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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Done Morning Up Wake
There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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Dialed Feelings Quitting Watches
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Echo Kindness Time
The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
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Fear Left never Right Swing
Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
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Friday Night Songwriter Women
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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Kids Reading Years
I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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Cutting Family People Sensitive
And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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Ends Faith Friend Have
One of them looked at me and shook her head, like “Don’t do that.” I think she was doing it to say, “It doesn’t work.” She didn’t say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn’t work. There are just so many other words to choose from.
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Look Moment One Shook Work

I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

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