Quote #39

We're drinking and we're dancing but there's nothing really happening. The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.

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  1. If you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle to come.
  2. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
  3. Waiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do. I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II.
  4. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is com…
  5. I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.
  6. And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
  7. Here I stand, I'm your man.
  8. Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will

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