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Billy Joel

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOEL

Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Antiques May Stones
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Insanity Talking Winos
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Back Music Romance Together
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Evil May Understanding
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Country Frozen Halloween Listened World
Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Color Philosophy Rainbow
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
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Being Crazy Sane
It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Reading Song Writing
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’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Boredom Children Reality
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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People Retirement Retiring
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Family Men Mint
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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Art Honey Media Money
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Drink Expression Loneliness
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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Evil Home Open Phones Window
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Believe Meditation Religious

I watched the mighty skyline fall

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