"You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing."
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"Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen."
"Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes"
"When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
"I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door."
"Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem."
"How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?"
"All that foreign oil controlling American soil."
"Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become."
"Black is the Color and none is the number"
"Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall."
"The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him."
"It's not a house, it's a home."
"If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you."
"For the loser now Will be later to win"
"Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
"You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
"In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave."
"To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross."