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When I Try To Explain To People The Big Influences In My Life, Or At Least When I First Started, The Most Important Ones Were My Friends Who Were Also Writing Songs And Were Typically Four Or Five Years Older Than Me.

I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorize. The Kind I Have Always Seems To Slip My Mind.

I Want To Be The Surgeon Who Cuts You Open Who Fixes All Of Life's Mistakes I Want To Be The House That You Were Raised In The Only Place Where You Feel Safe. I Wanna Be A Shower In The Morning That Wakes You Up And Makes You Clean I Know I'm Just The Weather Against Your Window As You Sleep Through A Winter's Dream

To Me, A Political Song Is Also A Personal Song. Most Political Activism Has Been Driven By Empathy For Other People And The Desire For A World That's Less Divisive. Even If Songs Aren't Overtly Political, They Can Make A Listener More Empathetic.

Well Morning Came, And It Dressed The Sky In A Lovely Yellow Gown. Shopping Malls Are Opening In That Narrow Hallway Of Downtown, Filled With People Who Are Shopping For Their Lovers And Their Friends, Singing "i Won't Ever Be Lonely Again