“I glance reflections of my face everyplace I go, in my mirror and in shop windows, like the lead in my own show. Do I dare look closely? See each wrinkle, scar and flaw?”

"The War/La Ilaha Il Allah"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

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Canadian musician 1972

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