#5: Suspicious minds
Perfect is the enemy of fun
Andrew Womack
#4: The future of what
Everything new is new again
#3: We jumped over the barriers
When in doubt, tidy up
#2: Listen, the snow is falling
Don’t fall on me
#1: Incomplete
The feeling you’ve left the oven on
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