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Lou Reed: Sally Can't Dance

Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, September 1974

LINES. A LINE here, a line there. Sometimes it seems that the best songwriters are the ones who are sure to pop up with a gem of a line, a perfect ten or fifteen words every few minutes.

Total word count of piece: 1321

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