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Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love. Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light. No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen

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