"I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself."
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"The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth."
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"Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed."
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"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."
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"The wild night is calling."
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"You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time."
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"I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later."
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"Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn."
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"Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love."
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"Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand."
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"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
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"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
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"When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through."
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"Men come, men go, all things remain in God."
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"If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above."
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"I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
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"I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows."
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"Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time"
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"Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense."
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"I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more."
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