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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

Billy Joel

I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Booze Couple Hard Nothing Times
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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Beautiful Heard Record Song Writing
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Dream Ocean Rivers
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.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
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
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Help Point Promised Something Try
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Drink Expression Loneliness
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Mean Opinion Singers

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