“The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face,
The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable…”

—  Paul Weller (singer)

Private Hell, from Setting Sons (1979)

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English singer-songwriter, Guitarist 1958

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