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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

Paul Simon

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Back Discussion Freedom Need Planning Yourself
If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Body Friendship Guard Myself
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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Emotion Fashion Heart Open Reality
In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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Carry Clear Fight Myself Reminder Shame Stand
Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Live Magic Movie Pieces Song
Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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Creativity Myself Player Preparation Sing Singer Writing
It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Difficult Goodness Simplicity
Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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Fact Goodness Happiness Health Money Myself Young
We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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Aware Live Myself Pain Personal Time
Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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Myself Possible See Time
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Course Life Run Time
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Herself Kiss Lover Myself Realize
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Angry Heart Jealous Myself Soul
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Age Time
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Brave Face Myself
Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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Existence Heart Myself
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Fire Life Room Walk
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Burst Glory Song Sound
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Cloud Darkness Earth Gold Love Song Vibration
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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Arrange Artist Element Live Myself
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Better Heart Life Ourselves Thinking
A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time

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