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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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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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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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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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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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