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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Gone
Word
Lying
Crack
Come
Goodbye
Long
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Believe
Dawn
Love
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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