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Track 16: 'Here's your ticket, pack your bag, it's time for jumping overboard...
'No one expected me. Everything awaited me...' Patti Smith
Dec 31, 2025
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Track 15: 'I wish that life could be just like a photograph...'
“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.” ― stephen christian
Jun 18, 2025
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Track 14: 'It's the beginning of a new age...'
“For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." TS Eliot
Feb 22, 2025
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Track 13: 'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head, It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed right now...'
“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at…
Nov 22, 2024
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Track 12: 'If you should ever leave me, well life would still go on, believe me...'
"We are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events-a story-and when we can't figure out what our…
Aug 23, 2024
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Track 11: 'she's gone crazy about the notion of flippin' in the ocean, without you...'
"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.” Rob Sheffield
Jul 14, 2024
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Track 10: 'I'm the world's forgotten boy, the one who searches and destroys...'
'I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things...' Tom Waits
Apr 23, 2024
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Track 9: 'I can feel the earth begin to move, I hear my needle hit the groove...'
"On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the…
Feb 22, 2024
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