“You'd never think, to look at
you'd never think to look at
that building there, is where there
used to be trees.
You'd never think it, would you?
You'd never think it, would you?
That building there is where there
used to be trees.
That building there is where there...
That building there is where there..
That building there is where there...
used to be fields.”
"Me (reprise)" (song)
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Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Me (reprise)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyN2Q_j1po (song on YouTube)
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Gilbert O'Sullivan 45
Irish singer-songwriter 1946Related quotes
“Man, you must sweat
And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
Your verse a ladder.”
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Context: Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer
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And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
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October 6, 2007 St. Petersburg Times by Shannon Breen.

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The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 140
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“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.”
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Source: Fiddler on the Roof
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