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God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts...

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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of...

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Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,An...

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Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away ere break of dayTo see...

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Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, pa...

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To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying...

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Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the S...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the drea...

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But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...

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I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ...

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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

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James ConnollySongs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Gene...

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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you...

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Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.

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Jason MrazLove Is a Four Letter Word

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Almighty Freedom! give my venturous songThe force, the charm that to thy voice belong;Tis thine to s...

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How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

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Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older tha...

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I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i...

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You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that sou...

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I got the Eye of the Tiger The FireDancing through the fire Cause I am a Champion!And your gonna hea...

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Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect ro...

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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothin...

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I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

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Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself...

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Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.Be strong my we...

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If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.While the ...

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It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,To wake up wearing a disguise.I lie in bed staring at the cei...

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Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlI'd love...

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I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d l...

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A good river is nature's life work in song.

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Mark HelprinFreddy and Fredericka

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was ...

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To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you...

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For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was ha...

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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ...

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How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land,And how many strugles must that b...

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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and...

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A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then a...

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There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the rava...

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The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

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Neil GaimanAnansi Boys

Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you b...

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Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind...

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I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum...

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people change and promises are broken

I will never hurt you.I will always help you.If you are hungryIll give you my food.If you are fright...

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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I ...

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I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have...

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Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out o...

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing alwa...

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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't fo...

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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

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This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can...

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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We...

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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the...

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Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enj...

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You're a song written by the hands of God.

There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft ...

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A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in...

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I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for...

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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...

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Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered three. Strange things...

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Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your tr...

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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and ...

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