Amplified Observations: Songs don’t need to be works of Shakespeare to get the point across
Sometimes the simplest lyrics can hit the hardest if there’s universal truth laced into them.
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Sometimes the simplest lyrics can hit the hardest if there’s universal truth laced into them.
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