In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
TOM PETTYI’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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A rebel without a clue.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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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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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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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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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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