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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
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- Nick Cave
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- Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Nick Cave: documented activity in 1973. Wikidata Q192668, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192668 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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