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I’m in a New York state of mind

Billy Joel

I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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History Loved Music Musicologist Something
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
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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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Fine Slow Down Want
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Known Life Only Time
…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Good Inspirational Love Morning
I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Girl Kind Rock Roll
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Advice Cheap Take
It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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People Retirement Retiring
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Giving Hate People
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Love Wasted Time
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Human Music Need Same Things
If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Causes Past Way

I’m in a New York state of mind

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