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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, why didn't you play? If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.
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It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of.
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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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