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Forgetting the words to a song you wrote is a fact of life for songwriters. It's harder for them than for singers who learn songs written by others.

Billy Joel tells a funny story about how he watches the lips of people in the audience when he forgets the words to a song, but when he forgets the words of We Didn't Start The Fire, he is on his own!

The only change with Gord over the decades is that 95% of the time when he forgets the lyrics, he masterfully fakes it (with a smoothly executed mumble). Only when he forgets something at the very beginning does he start over. And today, he laughs it off, while when he was just starting out he worried about it more (as any young artist would).