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" I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling. "

Eliot Sumner

People

Feel

Feeling

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Place

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Music

Feel

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