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Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive

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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
Composer
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Steven Demetre Georgiou
Yusuf Islam
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