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I might be an endangered species.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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