Wednesday's Brain Bender

What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

A musical man who tried _______ felt he would have to _______ in order to live where he could hear his favorite music.
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Okay. Answer to be found later in the comments....

Update: Today's Smarty McSmarty is SarahK from Mountaineer Musings! (And she said that this one was hard -- guess not that hard!)