I emailed myself the Wikipedia link for this song back October 27th. I was not entirely sure why I would email myself a link from Wikipedia as opposed to sending myself the Apple music link or the YouTube video. So I read through the article. I imagine I kept the article for the following tidbit:
“To me, the most autobiographical line was: ‘My make-up may be flaking but my smile still stays on.’ That was true. No matter how ill Freddie felt, he never grumbled to anyone or sought sympathy of any kind. It was his battle, no one else’s, and he always wore a brave face against the ever-increasing odds against him. — Jim Hutton – 1994
That really is such a beautiful line. Everything can be falling apart, but if you can keep your head up, keep perspective, you can keep going. And really that’s all we can do. We can’t change the hand we’ve been dealt, only how we play it.
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