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i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
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