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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.

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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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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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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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.
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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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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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I never was a very good singer.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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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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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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