Rod McKuen Quotes

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As friends and as musical collaborators we had traveled, toured and written — together and apart — the events of our lives as if they were songs, and I guess they were. When news of Jacques' death came I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week. That kind of self pity was something he wouldn't have approved of, but all I could do was replay our songs (our children) and ruminate over our unfinished life together.

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Till the sheep in the valley come home my way
Till the stars fall around me and find me alone
When the sun comes a-singin' I'll still be waitin' For Jean, Jean, roses are red
And all of the leaves have gone green
While the hills are ablaze with the moon's yellow haze
Come into my arms, bonnie Jean.

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It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

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We have only love,
to offer as a prayer,
for all the wrongs in the world.
So... like singing troubadours we'll go,
singing love wherever we go.

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I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

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We have only love,
to help us find our way,
as we go out into the world.
So... like laughing children we'll go
singing love wherever we go.

Rod McKuen
Jean, Jean, roses are red
All the leaves have gone green
And the clouds are so low
You can touch them, and so
Come out to the meadow, Jean.

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It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

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Jean, Jean, you're young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean.

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Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife;
Without you I'd have had a lonely life.
You cheated lots of times but then,
I forgave you in the end
Though your lover was my friend. Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky.
Now that spring is in the air
With your lovers ev'rywhere,
Just be careful; I'll be there.

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Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

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Think of all the men who never knew the answers think of all those who never even cared. Still there are some who ask why who want to know, who dare to try.

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Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

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Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

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Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

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