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I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Manufacturer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Oakland
California
Reverend Strychnine Twitch
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Shame
Broken
Pain
Running
Victimized
Away
Apologize
Another
Apologizing
Home
Nowhere
Feel
Tales

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