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This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

Tracy Chapman

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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Cleveland
Ohio
Heart
Chasing
Love
Precious
Energy
Around
Give
Need
Giving
Youthful
Needs
Wasting

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I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
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