You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
BILLY JOELWell we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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