Jackson Browne Quotes

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I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through.
Looking into their eyes I see them running too.

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I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

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They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars

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Make it on your own if you think you can.
If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

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These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to.

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Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender
who started out so young and strong only to surrender

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Well, I'm a standing on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
And such a fine sight to see,
It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to have a look at me.

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Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature

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And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

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Well I'm running down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load,
I've got seven women on my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine.

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Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long.

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Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

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Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy.

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These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.

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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

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Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown

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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender

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These days I'll sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quartertones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.

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