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7) "One fine morning she put on a New York station and she couldn't believe what she heard at all. She started dancing to that fine-fine music, you know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll", Lou Reed,"Rock and Roll"- Rock and roll ain't noise pollution, and here Lou pins down why. The same feeling that makes us bow down to God makes us raise the volume up when it's already playing loud. Repent, repent, the kingdom of God is that band. What else could saving be, here on Earth but change at hand, with no heaven for us coming, a New York street to a promised land.
8) "Things they do look awful cold. Hope I die before I get old", Pete Townshend, "My Generation"- This one has been written and talked about so many times that I hesitate to put it on the list. What can you do though, Pete caught a leviathan with his line, to squirm upon our shores until the Earth is dead and we're all gone. I'll love this line forever, and it'll get me high forever, or at least untill I'm old and my hopes been traded on. You're not a hypocrite for getting old Pete, if this line has haunted you, which I doubt it has, just keep in mind he was just a kid who wrote it. Hey hey, my my.
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