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Tom Petty

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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Myself Stand World
Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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Add Wait Wondering Worry Yourself
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
You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Yourself
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Forgiveness Key Redeem
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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Finding Happiness Love Person Work Yourself
George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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Hug Kind Love Man Yourself
If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Death Old Yourself
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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Count Different Friendship Yourself
God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Close God Pain Reach
At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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Day End Record Yourself
If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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Corporation Country Profit
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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Hate Hope Investment Understand Wasted Time
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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Wings World Yourself
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Luck Success Thinking Yourself
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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Health Mental Physical Thinking
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Boat Feeling Flower Freedom Love Sea Yourself
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 in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Hell Job Yourself
I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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Fun Music Myself Play
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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Hope Ideal Myself Thinking Weird
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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Imagination Sale Yourself
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Incredible Lazy Myself
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
I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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Children Happiness Job Love Passion Yourself
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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Communication Healing Life Magic Move Music Myself Reality
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

If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.

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