I have my books and my poetry to protect me

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you