"Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song."

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Source: Song: Built to Last. 1989.

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Robert Hunter

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Robert Hunter was an influential American lyricist and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, shaping the band's lyrical landscape.

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