“Now that you've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll never make it out alive.”

—  Ben Harper

Skin Thin.
Song lyrics, White Lies for Dark Times (2009)

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singer-songwriter and musician 1969

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