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"I would give this song a ten any day if it had not been made much better the first time. This second version is a slower, (though still fast) worse version of the Fold's best song found on a promotional CD for Hopeless Records I think is called Hoplessly Devoted to You, Volume 4."
- ↑ Waking the Fallen: Resurrected liner notes. Hopeless Records. 2014. p. 9.
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