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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.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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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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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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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