“In the morning when I closed my eyesYou were sleeping in paradiseAnd while the room was growing lightI was holding still with all my might”

—  Jackson Browne

Call it a Loan (Browne, David Perry Lindley) Hold Out (1980)

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American singer-songwriter 1948

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