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"After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together."

Jim Capaldi, British Musician

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"After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together."

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"Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them."

"I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?"

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