And so my child and I came to...

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

We didn't start the fire It w...

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Why should I worry, why shoul...

Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

I can't remember faces, don't...

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

I consider myself to be an in...

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

I run into people from the Le...

I run into people from the Lehigh Valley and Allentown all over the world, and they're obviously doing pretty well. They say, "Oh, it's pretty nice there now and there's a lot of new businesses that have come into the area." Nobody's telling me, "Yeah, I left." Everybody says, "You know, I'm there. It's great. It's really nice there, and you made our town famous."

There ain't much future for a...

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Sweetness flows from your app...

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

I've crashed my car three time...

I've crashed my car three times.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if i...

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

You've got to be hard, like th...

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

Everybody is different. Some w...

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

There ain't much future for a ...

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Though you can see when you're...

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

They're sharing a drink they c...

They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

We all end in the ocean. We al...

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

Slow down you're doing fine

Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

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Don't be afraid to try again e...

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

This is our moment, here at th...

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.

Hey Lord, would ya look out fo...

Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.