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You Can Go To Church And Sing A Hymn, Judge Me By The Colour Of My Skin, You Can Live A Lie Until You Die, One Thing You Can't Hide Is When You're Crippled Inside.

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You Can Go To Church And Sing A Hymn, Judge Me By The Colour Of My Skin, You Can Live A Lie Until You Die, One Thing You Can't Hide Is When You're Crippled Inside.

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Inspirational Life

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We're Crazy About This City. Los Angeles? That's Just A Big Parking Lot Where You Buy A Hamburger For The Trip To San Francisco.

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I Hope Someday You Will Join Us And The World Will Live As One.

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Strawberry Fields Is Anywhere You Want To Go

The World Is Still Spinning And So Are We And So Are You. When The Spinning Stops - That'll Be The Time To Worry. Not Before.

I Don't Want To Be King, I Want To Be Real.

I Can't Play Guitar, But I Can Sure Make It Howl.

There Is Nothing Conceptually Better Than Rock 'n' Roll. No Group, Be It Beatles, Dylan Or Stones, Have Ever Improved On Whole Lot Of Shaking For My Money. Or Maybe I'm Like Our Parents: That's My Period And I Dig It And I'll Never Leave It.

I Don't Mind Looking To The Camera - It's People That Throw Me.

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I Wanna Hold Your Gland.

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You Can Only Breathe Out If You Breathe In.

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I Want It To Sound Like An Orange.

When I Was About Twelve I Used To Think I Must Be A Genius, But Nobody's Noticed. If There Is Such A Thing As A Genius, I Am One, And If There Isn't I Don't Care.

Will The People In The Cheaper Seats Clap Your Hands? And The Rest Of You, If You'll Just Rattle Your Jewelry.

I've Never Voted. I've Never Voted Yet Although I Could Have Voted For The Last Ten Years.

I Am Like A Chameleon, Influenced By Whatever's Going On. If Elvis Can Do It, I Can Do It. If The Everly Brothers Can Do It, Me And Paul Can. Same With Dylan.

Nobody's Ever Tried The Peace Thing, ... We Are Selling It Like Soap.

There's Room At The Top They Are Telling You Still, But First You Must Learn How To Smile As You Kill.

I'm A Moldy Moldy Man I'm Moldy Thru And Thru I'm A Moldy Moldy Man You Would Not Think It True I'm Moldy Til My Eyeballs I'm Moldy Til My Toe I Will Not Dance I Shyballs I'm Such A Humble Joe.

I Never Listen To The Radio. If It's Bad, I Make Fun Of It, And If It's Good, I Get Jealous That I Didn't Think Of It.

God Is A Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain.

I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil. We All Have Everything Within Us And The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Nigh And Within Us, And If You Look Hard Enough You'll See It.

And So This Is Xmas For Black And For White, For Yellow And Red, Let's Stop All The Fight.

There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done Nothing You Can Sing That Can't Be Sung. Nothing You Can Say But You Can Learn How To Play The Game. It's Easy. Nothing You Can Make That Can't Be Made. No One You Can Save That Can't Be Saved. Nothing You Can Do But You Can Learn How To Be You In Time. It's Easy. Nothing You Can Know That Isn't Known. Nothing You Can See That Isn't Shown. Nowhere You Can Be That Isn't Where You're Meant To Be. It's Easy.

The Worst Drugs Are As Bad As Anybody's Told You. It's Just A Dumb Trip, Which I Can't Condemn People If They Get Into It, Because One Gets Into It For One's Own Personal, Social, Emotional Reasons. It's Something To Be Avoided If One Can Help It.

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