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For some reason, people have a great deal of trouble attributing this lyric to its creators: Susanna Clark and
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is credited with writing, "Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." Later, the phrase "Work like you don't need the money" was added, often credited to baseball great
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there must be unconsciously disappointed that something that cool came from such ordinary people, so they keep giving it the loftier authorship they believe it deserves.
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and published in 1987. It is most known through the 1989 single by
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1177:Categories
1097:455 Rocket
870:Goin' Gone
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