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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
Guitarist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Pomona
California
Benjamin Chase Harper
Sometimes
Beginning
Roses
Must
Enemy
Strangers
Feels
Friends
Wounds
Mean
Means
Enemies
Cannot
Survive
Ends
Stranger
Better
Stones
Feel
Rose
Mend

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