Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
TOM PETTYJust wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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I got my own way of praying.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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A rebel without a clue.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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