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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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