"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."

People, Failure, Sense, Songs

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"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."

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