“Fearless people,
Careless needle.
Harsh words spoken,
And lives are broken.”
Seal (musician) (1963) British singer-songwriter
"Prayer For The Dying"
Seal (1994)
"Temporary And Eternal" - Live performance, later used on the compilation album The Keep (16 May 1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiIqnvFAoHs <br class="br">Equipoise (1993) <br class="br">Context: He is broken, far from free<br>Words were spoken, 'tween him and me:<br>"I had friends, yes, I was admired<br>I'm so old now, feel so tired."<br>Well he walks to the gate and he looks behind<br>at life in rewind<br>And wishes he had known these things<br>while still alive.
“Fearless people,
Careless needle.
Harsh words spoken,
And lives are broken.”
Seal (musician) (1963) British singer-songwriter
"Prayer For The Dying"
Seal (1994)
“Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being restrained, a heart is broken.”
John Fletcher The Spanish Curate
The Spanish Curate (licensed 24 October 1622; 1647), Act II, scene 5, Song.
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), ed. Arna Bontemps
“I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.”
Al-Tabari (839–923) influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur'an
Source: The History of Al-Tabari, Volume VI, p. 111. ( al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings)
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Morning Has Broken, was widely popularized by the Cat Stevens version on Teaser and the Firecat (1971), but was actually written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1931. · A performance by Cat Stevens (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts <br class="br">Misattributed
“When your heart has been broken,
Hard words have been spoken.
It ain't easy - but it's only love.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
It's Only Love, performed with Tina Turner
Song lyrics, Reckless (1984)
“Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast.”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 242