"Is it holding you down, this great weight?" -Smith, Leyden, Coles, Stables

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"Now, everybody knows that when a body decomposes, the basic elements are given back to the ocean, and the sea does what it oughta" -Harry Nilsson

"I'm not quite what you wanted, I can tell by the way you hesitate, no it ain't that my past's haunted, so I must stand and wait" -Marley Hale Collins

"It was gravity which pulled us down, and destiny which broke us apart" -Bob Dylan

"We eat for free to put on a show for everyone" -Haley McCallum

"Well I look up to the people who are less bought than I, you can show them what you're selling, and they'll only ask you why" -Dar Williams

"And the Lord said: 'Man means nothing, he means less to me than the lowliest cactus flower or humblest yucca tree'" -Randy Newman

"You've got to keep thinking, you can make it thru these waves, acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs" -Joni Mitchell

"A little trouble makes it worth the going, and a little rain never hurt no one" -Tom Waits

"Turn off the trouble like you turn off a light, went off and left me, it just ain't right, well, it's over, I know it but I can't let go" -Lucinda Williams

"I asked the captain for the time of day, he said he threw his watch away" -Traditional