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The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part, I want a simple yet powerful production.


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ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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