“How far you are I just don't know
The distance I'm willing to go
I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky
Hoping for some kind of sign”

— Norah Jones

"Lonestar", Come Away with Me (2002)
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American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1979

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