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" Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here! "

John Lydon

Ideas

Discipline

You

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Clear

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Pink

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Heart

Great

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Through

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Need

Want

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You

Give

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Diversity

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