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If You Can Surrender Your Protection Devices, In Order To Track The Potentially Raw And Perhaps Elusive Emotions That Are The Song's Dna, Then That Is Creative Vulnerability, Which Is Ultimately Hugely Empowering.

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If You Can Surrender

Tori Amos

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If You Can Surrender Your Protection Devices, In Order To Track The Potentially Raw And Perhaps Elusive Emotions That Are The Song's Dna, Then That Is Creative Vulnerability, Which Is Ultimately Hugely Empowering.

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