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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Geddy Lee

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Geddy Lee
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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