“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”
Source: Selected Poems
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Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
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Variant: I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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