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the song is that we all take chances, that's what life is all about, and we also tend to want to find some way to say, terribly, well, he had it coming, it couldn't have happened to me because I don't do that sort of thing. These are all things I'm putting in a song on a record where we're cracking jokes about screwballs and curveballs and things like that. Somehow, we have the freedom in this band to do that.
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