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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Ben Folds

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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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