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'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
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I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.
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The drunk kids, the catholicsThey’re all about the sameThey’re waiting for somethingHoping to be saved
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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
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If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.
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I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
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We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
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It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.
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Yeah, I was a postcard, I was a recordI was a camera until I went blind
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Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.
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On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalkSomeone wrote in red, 'start over.'
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
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I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.
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There was this book I read and loved,The story of a shipWho sailed around the world and foundThat nothing else existsBeyond its own two sailsAnd wooden shellAnd what is held within.All else is sure to pass.We clutch and graspAnd debate what's truly permanent.
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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
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I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away
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I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
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