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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?
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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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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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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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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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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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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Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
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There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase I'll give it five! The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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