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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.

Tom Petty

Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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Drink Follow Myself Walk
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Abandonment Lose Yourself
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Myself Play Work
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Dance Kill Myself Time Tired
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Diamond King Money Sound
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Forgiveness Key Redeem
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Born Children Hurricane Lost
Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Each Other Music People Perfection Soul
It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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Affordable Industry Internet Music Payment Steal Way
I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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Better Guitar Myself Practice Sing Thinking
If you don’t run, you rust.
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Exercise Move Run Rust Yourself
I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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Better Interesting Myself Quit Watch
If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Death Old Yourself
Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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Crown Heart Broken Life Steal Time
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Hell Job Yourself
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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Feeling Money Myself
I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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Feeling Happiness Moon Myself Purpose Young
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Choice Freedom Human Voice
She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Goodness Horse Relationship Woman
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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Dreams Leadership Mystery Work
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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Cool Light Myself Problem
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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Day Fade Myself Rock
I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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Audience Money Pay Price Yourself
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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Fall Life People Start Yourself
I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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Fascination History Love Myself
What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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Each Other Learning Marriage Yourself
Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Herself Night

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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