Dec. 15, 2025

Dec 16th- NO Barbie or Barney, ZZ Top, ABBA, Beethoven, Boston Tea Party, Battle of the Bulge, Jeff Carson

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Barbie and Barney backlash day. Entertainment from 1989. Boston Tea Party, Battle of the Buldge began, Shirley Temple retired. Todays birthdays - Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Benny Andersson, Billy Gibbons, Benjamin Bratt, Jeff Carson. Colonel Sanders died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcorin https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
I love you song - Barney
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
Two dozen roses - Shenandoah
All I want fro Christmas is you - Mariah Carey
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Symphony no. 9 - Beethoven
Waterloo - ABBA
Give me all your lovin - ZZ Top
Not on your love - Jeff Carson
Exit - Point of no return - Todd Borrow https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11362959/

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He Hello and welcome to history and Factoid's about today.

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I am Jeff at today's December the sixteenth.

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Love You You Love Me were heavy famly with the

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grain und kiswell meeting you. Won't you say you love me?

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You don't like that song, well, then today is for you.

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It is Barbie and Barney backlash day. Today is to

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pretend like Barbie and Barney never existed. Parents that can

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put away all their toys and shows and songs and

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just enjoy a Barbie and Barney free day.

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The kids will just have to deal with it today.

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Now, Barbie and Barney, they've been irritating parents for decades,

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so today is a day of peace and quiet. You know, personally,

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I would rather deal with Barbie and Barney then I

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would rather than step on a lego with a beer foot.

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Today is also chocolate covered everything day. You're gonna have

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fun with that, all right. That's what is going on

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and entertainment on just m the sixteenth. Back to nineteen

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eighty nine number one album was storm Front by Billy

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Joel Billy had The number one song was We Didn't

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Start the Fire.

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Coming Way Stranger in the Strange Landil and Burl.

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Shinnandoah. They had the number one country song with two

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dozen roses.

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Voted.

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Mind if I had to.

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Roots and.

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If I.

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Change.

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The number one book was Daddy by Danielle Steele. Top

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movie was Christmas Vacation the gris Walls. They plan a

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really big family Christmas. Yeah, so it starts Jimmy Chase,

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Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid. In twenty nineteen, twenty five years

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after it was originally released, All I Want for Christmas

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Is You, written and sung by Mirianker, finally went up

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to number one.

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All right?

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What happened on the Simmer the sixteenth, seventeen seventy three

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in Boston to protest that tea tax and bosed by

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the British on the American colonists, the Sons of Liberty,

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They held the Boston Tea Party. They threw ninety two

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thousand pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. That was

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enough to make eighteen million tea bags. Now, yeah, I

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know today that tea would cost one point seven million bucks.

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Now.

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The only person who got caught was Francis Eckerley. Yeah,

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the British received a nonymous tip that he was involved

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so they arrested him. Then they tarred and feathered him.

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You know what, he never gave up any of the

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others who actually were part of that tea party, so

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that's pretty cool. Sadly though, Francis he was killed fighting

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on Bunker Hill. Now that tea act or tax at

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the British imposed actually lowered the price of tea. Yeah,

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but you had to buy your tea from the East

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India Company. See what they're trying to do is they're

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trying to get rid of all the smuggle tea that

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was coming in illegally. That tea wasn't being taxed. Nineteen

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forty four and World War Two, one of the biggest

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battles in the European theater began was the Battle of

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the Bulge Germany. They launched a huge surprise attack on

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the United States Army that was in Belgium. Germans wanted

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to get the United States off their western border and

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thought mean they could split it in a half or.

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Something like that. Now I'll give you the other details.

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That battle goes on until January the twenty fifth, nineteen

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fifty Legendary actor Shirley Temple retired after forty three movies Yep,

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she was done twenty two years old. Now this story

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makes me want to know how and all that kind

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of stuff, but then it's really sad, so I don't

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think I really want any more information about it. In

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twenty twenty one, in the school in Devonport Tasmania and Australia,

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six children died in a bouncy castle accident. On a

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lighter note, In twenty twenty two, Pokemon, they announced their

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main characters Ash catched them and Pikachu. Yeah, they were

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leaving the show after twenty five years.

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Cope, cope joke, shuge dish shibf Day.

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We're gonna Parge he left Thish Shibf Day. We want

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simple Targe. He's like this shibirth day, and you know

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we don't.

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Give birthday a Let's check out who was born on

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December the sixteenth, Ludwig von Beethoven, and he was born

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in Bonn, Germany, at seventeen seventy. He has considered it,

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if not the one of the greatest composers of all time. Now,

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if you get stuck at a really boring party and

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people are talking about classical music, yeah you should probably leave.

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But if you can't, just mention Beethoven's fifth that Night Symphonies. Yeah,

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he'll sound really smart Beethoven. He actually started losing his

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hearing when he's twenty eight years old. He was completely

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deaf by forty five. After that he had to communicate

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by passing notes. Nope, they still don't know why he

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ended up going deaf. They can't figure it out now.

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He was a really big drinker. He died in eighteen

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twenty seven at fifty six years old from liver failure.

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Writer Jane Austen. She was born at Steventon, England, in

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seventeen seventy five. She is really famous in the literary world.

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Surely wrote six books. Now all you need not to

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sound really smart around about Jane Austen. And she wrote

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the book Sense and Sensibilities, Briden, Prejudiced and Emma. Yep,

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that' sounds really smart all over again. She died in

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eighteen seventeen at forty one years old from Addison's disease.

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It's an endocrine disease. Now when you think of Abba,

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you kind of forget there are two guys in there too,

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Bennie Anderson.

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He was one of those guys.

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He's seventy nine He's one of Stockholm, Sweden in nineteen

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forty six, formed Abba in nineteen seventy two. Now Abba

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is just the first letter of all their first names.

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Agne Bennie Bajorne Any Freed, Benny Andy Freed. They married,

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say she was a brunette back then. Now they started

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dating in nineteen six sixty nine. They married in nineteen

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seventy eight, divorce nineteen eighty one. Now Benny had a

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son and a daughter before her. Then right after the

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divorce in eighty one, Yeah, he went married his second

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wife and they have a son. Billy Gibbons. He is

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the guitarist and lead singer for zz Top. I thought

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they might have broke up. See there's the thing Billy.

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He's come to Denver solo on January the twenty ninth,

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but then I said he's coming back with zz Top

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March twenty third, So that's cool. They kind of go

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out and do their own thing and then come back

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and perform as a group again. Billy seventy six. He's

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born in Houston, Texas. In nineteen forty nine, Billy started

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out in the band Moving Sidewalks. They were opening act

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for Jimmy Hendricks. After that tour ended, though he quit

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and formed zz Top in nineteen sixty nine. Well that's

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Frank and Dusty some zz Top. It's are tub snake boogie,

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getting me out.

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You're loving legs, cheap sunglasses. Dusty.

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He died in twenty one, but if you go see

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Z Yeah, Billy and Frank, they're still there. They just

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brought in Elwood Billy. He married his longtime girlfriend in

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two thousand and five. Now if you watch all the

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old zz top music videos, easily say I really sooped up.

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Nineteen thirty three Ford Coup. It's called the Eliminator. Billy

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actually owns that car. He's a big car enthusiast. Actor

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Benjamin Bratt. He's sixty two. He's born in San Francisco

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in nineteen sixty three. Some of his movies are Clear

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and Present, Danger, Miscongeniality, The River, Wild, Traffic on TV.

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It was on Law and Order and then Homicide, Life

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on the Streets. Got married in two thousand and two

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and they have one son and one daughter.

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Not on you, not in this line good every I

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wouldn't think.

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You know.

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Country singer Jeff Carson was bun on Torso Tulsa Clobea

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in nineteen sixty three. Some of his big hats are

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not on your love the car, hold on to something, hey, buddy.

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In two thousand and nine, Jeff he retired from singing,

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became a full time police officer in the Franklin, Tennessee

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Police Force. Married back in nineteen eighty nine, and then

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Jeff died from a heart attack in twenty twenty two.

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Yeah, fifty eight years old.

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Alright here quote of the day. It comes from the

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founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. His first name

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was Harlan so Sanders. He died today in nineteen eighty

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at ninety years old. These that there's no reason to

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be the richest man in the cemetery. Can't do business there. Well,

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thank you all for listening, and make sure you follow us.

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and then check out today's show description for any questions

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about this show. Our Country and the Ground radio artists

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today comes from Terry Ott and Oklahoma. He wants to

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hear Todd Burrow song Ain't looking back. You guys have

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an awesome day.

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We'll talk to march.

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I'm alone ways from home. Traveling places a stranger. When

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I'm wrong, that's okay. I'm doing fine, not afraid to

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cross that line.

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Time don't matter much to me.

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Drift out free Memories along these roads reflect life's episodes.

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Find a love to turn.

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Learning as I go. Life is hard, good, I'll make

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it burn still lessons to learn, some discover ain't look

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came back, but turning back down.

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I'm at the point of no return. Start of man,

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just ticking away, even when blue Scuy's turned to gray

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Calie Raise pierced my eyes, getting closer with each sun

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Rats Risco.

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Bay Head South, I my Rod on the route, serving

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swells in no scene, Whistcoats bath scene, wint of no return.

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Learning as I go.

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That is hard.

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Butt out, make a burn,

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