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I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
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In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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