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They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
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you dont know what you got till its gone
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I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
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