Like other songs with universal themes - say, REM's Everybody Hurts - the imprecision of the lyric is seen by the many it reaches as a strength and by others as a weakness - a vagueness approaching greeting-card levels.

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Some fans worry that the loss of artifacts from Athens' music scene hurts everybody.

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They know that when their friends and neighbors are out of work that hurts everybody.

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"When you smoke indoors, it hurts everybody, " the 59-year-old says, leaning against an iron fence outside his building.

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And when gas prices go up, it hurts everybody -- everybody who owns a car, everybody who owns a business.

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Every firm does what is prudent for itself, but by cutting its spending it slows down the economy still further and thus hurts everybody, including itself.

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To everybody else it's bricks and mortar, but to us it's home and it hurts.

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