“My time's too short to waste on
Things you say without your brain.
Will you paint works of art
When you speak?
When you open your mouth
Will I weep?”

—  Happy Rhodes

"Words Weren't Made For Cowards"
Warpaint (1991)

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American singer-songwriter 1965

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