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If You Can't Create Physical Life, You Find A Life Force. If That's In Music, That's In Music. I Started To Find This Deep, Primitive Rhythm, And I Started To Move To It. And I Held Hands With Sorrow, And I Danced With Her, And We Giggled A Bit.

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If You Can't Create

Tori Amos

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If You Can't Create Physical Life, You Find A Life Force. If That's In Music, That's In Music. I Started To Find This Deep, Primitive Rhythm, And I Started To Move To It. And I Held Hands With Sorrow, And I Danced With Her, And We Giggled A Bit.

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