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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.
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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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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
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Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
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But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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