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Sometimes You Wonder, I Mean Really Wonder. I Know We Make Our Own Reality, And We Always Have A Choice, But How Much Is Preordained? Is There Always A Fork In The Road, And Are There Two Preordained Paths That Are Equally Preordained? There Could Be Hundreds Of Paths Where One Could Go This Way Or That Way -- There's A Chance, And It's Very Strange Sometimes.

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Sometimes You Wonder, I

John Lennon

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Sometimes You Wonder, I Mean Really Wonder. I Know We Make Our Own Reality, And We Always Have A Choice, But How Much Is Preordained? Is There Always A Fork In The Road, And Are There Two Preordained Paths That Are Equally Preordained? There Could Be Hundreds Of Paths Where One Could Go This Way Or That Way -- There's A Chance, And It's Very Strange Sometimes.

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No Short-haired, Yellow-bellied, Son Of Tricky Dicky Is Gonna Mother Hubbard Soft Soap Me With Just A Pocketful Of Soap.

Today's Folk Song Is Rock And Roll. Although It Happened To Emanate From America, That's Not Really Important In The End Because We Wrote Our Own Music And That Changed Everything.

There's High, And Then There's High, And To Get Really High--i Mean So High That You Can Walk On The Water, That High--that's Where I'm Goin'

Link Wray And Gene Vincent.... Two Of The Greatest Unknowns Of Rock 'n' Roll.

Life Is What Happens While You Are Busy Making Other Plans.

From This Moment On I Know Exactly Where My Life Will Go: Seems That All I Really Was Doing Was Waiting For Love.

I Just Said What I Said And It Was Wrong. Or It Was Taken Wrong. And Now It's All This.

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

Father, You Left Me, But I Never Left You.

It's No Good Having, Being With People You Can Dominate All The Time. Or Being With Someone Who Can Dominate You All The Time. Because Either One Is Boring.

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