Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
TOM PETTYYou believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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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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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