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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

Billy Joel

Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Anybody Country Good Life
Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Everybody Loneliness Love Somehow
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical People Rolling Stones Use
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
BILLY JOEL

Education Endless Same Years
I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Man Rally Sweet Syre Younger
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Beats Hate Only
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Believe Times Car Three
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Men Rejection Thinking
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOEL

Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Couple Hard Times Years
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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Moments Past Relentless
I’m single but interviewing.
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Interviewing Person Single
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Art Created Looks Portraits
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 haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
BILLY JOEL

Angry Discontented Regret Relationship
I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
BILLY JOEL

Anniversary Friendship Love
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
BILLY JOEL

Drinking Loneliness
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOEL

Art Rock Roll War
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Autograph Daughter Missions
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Causes Giving Musician
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.
BILLY JOEL

Evil Home Open Phones Window
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Home Love True

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

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